The Daily Grind 1110 by Mike Gunderloy Friday, March 30, 2007

I'm definitely ready for a weekend this week.

• VMware Workstation 6 RC - Getting close to release.
• Actipro Ribbon - WPF .NET Control - Office 2007-like ribbon control for WPF.
• The Btrieve Time Machine - Btrieve has been around for 25 years. I feel old.

• Microsoft CRM 3.0 SDK - The software development kit for Microsoft's CRM product.

• The Mouse is Mightier Than the Sword - Attend Visual Basic labcasts, get Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition for free.(via Hunt Blog)
• Carnival of Agilists - 3/29/07 - Links to various blog posts from the agile community. Is anyone doing carnival of the carnivals yet?
• The Agile Alliance Takes an Official Position on Certification - An industry group is actually daring to say that some certifications are more valuable than others. Amazing.

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