The Daily Grind 1290

by Mike Gunderloy
Friday, December 7, 2007

Yesterday turned out to be all plumbers all the time. Ugh.

CI Factory RC1 1.0 - This tool for setting up continuous integration is getting close to a final release.

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts - For Windows and Firefox, courtesy of James Kovacs.
Windows Services Can Install Themselves - How to avoid using InstallUtil. (via DotNetKicks)
Do you really know where that code has been? - An argument against deploying from developer workstations.
Another paging approach - For retrieving SQL Server records.

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