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The Daily Grind 1214
by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, August 23, 2007
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Software marches on.
- Fast XP on a VPC
- Dan Maharry provides a unified guide to slimming down Windows XP and optimizing
a Virtual PC image to run it.

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.NET Coding Guidelines is a
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- Callback Function Usage
- Time-Out Usage
- Security in Class Libraries
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- Commenting Code
- Code Reviews
- Additional Notes for VB .NET Developers
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Mike Gunderloy is
the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.
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