The Daily Grind 1154

by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, May 31, 2007

Waking up is hard to do.

Windows Live Writer Beta 2 Now Available - A new release of Microsoft's blogging client.
Google Gears - Google is developing a universal toolkit to enable offline Web applications.
ReSharper 3.0 Beta - The next generation of JetBrains' refactoring tool is coming.
MindManager 7 - Now shipping.

FogBugz Works With... - Tools and tips for FogBugz users.

Microsoft vs TestDriven.Net Express - It appears that Microsoft is gearing up to sue Jamie Cansdale for having the audacity to figure out how to implement an add-in in the Express editions of VS.
LOLCODE - Community-based documentation of the emergent LOLCODE language. If this makes no sense to you, you're lucky.
Evil Mastermind Shirts - SourceGear is giving them out, and you can get one if you're sufficiently devious.

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