The Daily Grind 1085

by Mike Gunderloy
Friday, February 23, 2007

Not much shakin'. See you on Monday.

Proto - Data visualization app the combines local data and internet services with VBA and Flash support. Free for personal and non-commercial use. Download here. (via Anne Zelenka)
ASP.NET ViewState Helper - Real time tracking of your ViewState for ASP.NET applications in IE. (via Scott Hanselman)

The Programmer Phases of Grief: or Language Translation is Harder Than It Looks - Scott Hanselman falls down a rabbit hole that many of us have spent time in.

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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.