The Daily Grind 1149

by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Technology discussions are so often "blind men and elephant" round tables these days.

Official BlogEngine.NET 1.0 Release - New open source .NET blogging software.
Genome 3.2 - Now with page wizards for rapidly building standard CRUD forms.
Veeam Reporter 2.0 for VMware Infrastructure 3 - Software to dig out everything you need to know about your VI3 installation.
Resco CompactChart .NET - Charting control for the .NET Compact Framework.

.NET Micro Framework - First Impressions - With some pointers on getting started with this tiniest of .NET versions.
Programmer Intent or What you're not getting about Ruby and why it's the tits - Scott Hanselman tries to explain what's cool about Ruby.

BETA: Incubator for .NET Open Source Projects - Some folks are talking with Microsoft about the possibility of supporting more community projects.
Can We Trust Microsoft with Claimspace? - Meanwhile Microsoft continues to have trust problems on multiple fronts.

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