The Daily Grind 1269

by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, November 8, 2007

Looks like about another week before all our servers will be back online. Bah.

Announcing AutoTest.NET 0.1 - New automatic testing utility for .NET projects.
New Sysinternals Utility Released- ADInsight - For troubleshooting Active Directory.

ValidationSummary Tricks - From Gordon Weakliem.

Funny quotes about old programming languages - Passed on by Jeremy D. Miller.
The Mouseless Experiment - Scott Reynolds attempts to stop pointing.

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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET 2.0 newspaper of record.