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The Daily Grind 1305 - December 31, 2007

This is the final issue of the Daily Grind. Google Safe Browsing Library for .NET Beta 2 - Using Google to detect naughty people on the net. CodeRush and Refactor! Pro 3.0 Released - Good news from Developer Express. ASProxy: Surf in the web invisibly using ASP.NET power - Proxy server built with ASP.NET. Strongly typed custom configuration sections using XML serialization - Custom configuration is the text editor of .NET; everyone writes a...
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The Daily Grind 1304 - December 28, 2007

Not much happening. Back for my swan song on Monday. -- Sending Free SMS - A database solution to figuring things out. Edit (AddRemoveModify) ARP Table - I've had times when I needed to do this; here's .NET code to handle it. Are you a problem solver or a developer - The end of the year is a good time to step back to think about your real job. Sponsors SpreadsheetGear for .NET 2007 .
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The Daily Grind 1303 - December 27, 2007

Off to the Red Cross again this morning. ReSharper 3.1 - One of the best-know VS add-ins takes a step forward. RSS Bandit 1.6 - New version of this C RSS aggregator. (via Greg Duncan) -- How to start and keep your wiki alive - Some advice for the hopeful wiki owner. Sponsors CodeIt.Right The First Time (Static Code Analysis + Automatic Refactoring = Painless Coding...
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The Daily Grind 1302 - December 26, 2007

Just a few post-Christmas links. Powncenet - Library for interacting with the social network Pownce. Memcached (Distributed Cache) ASP.net Provider - Open-source distributed cache solution. CodeIt.Right Pre-release price - $150 if you buy it now. Code base size, complexity and language choice - Oren Eini weighs in on the recent discussion of maintaining large code bases. Code Size is - not - the Enemy - Patrick Smacchia's contribution..
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The Daily Grind 1301 - December 24, 2007

Just a reminder, there will be no Daily Grind tomorrow. Merry Christmas! BlogEngine.NET 1.3 has arrived - This may be the most active .NET blogging project these days. Code Signing Its Cheaper and Easier than You Thought - John Robbins walks through the details. (via Greg Duncan) Incomplete Scenarios: They don't know everything that's up with number sorting - Michael Kaplan points out that sorting is a less trivial problem than most.
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The Daily Grind 1300 - December 21, 2007

Not .NET-related, but on my mind this morning: the Frozen Pea Fund. EnvMan 1.3 - Windows Environment Variables Manager - New version of this tool for managing shell environment variables. Light ORM Library for .NET - Yes, there's always another ORM. Foundations of Programming - Part 5 Unit Testing - The basics from Karl Seguin. RD Stuck - Resetting a terminal server connection remotely. Don't be clever - An argument in favor.
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The Daily Grind 1299 - December 20, 2007

Things are still slow for the end of the year. Linkify Add-in for Visual Studio 2005 - Add-in to create hyperlinks in your source code. OnTime 2008 - Bug tracker now features integrated project wiki. Spec for Visual Studio 2005 - New build of Microsoft's design-by-contract tool. Why Use Continuous Integration - Beginner's Overview - An answer from Scott C. Reynolds. Internet Explorer Favorites, deconstructed - An...
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The Daily Grind 1298 - December 19, 2007

Even when the kids sleep, the big dog wants to wake up early. Can't win. Smart FieldPackEditor.Net 1.1 beta is available - Another round of this high-end replacement for DateTimePicker and other constrained edit controls. Sorting Strings for Humans with IComparer - A stab at properly sorting strings. (via Greg Duncan) What makes Boo a great language - PR from Oren...
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The Daily Grind 1297 - December 18, 2007

A few Tuesday links. Things are slowing down for the holidays. A New Task Scheduler Class Library for .NET - For handling scheduled tasks, of course. Exult Professional Edition for SQL Server - XML data importer. The Boo Language - A quick overview. Working outside the box with Unity - Cool new stuff coming from VMware. Debugging Ruby with the Cylon Debugger - Yummy debugging goodness for Ruby users on Windows. Custom...
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The Daily Grind 1296 - December 17, 2007

I spent the weekend studying up on RSpec. How about you Visual SourceSafe 2005 Update - Yup it's still updating. (via Greg Duncan) Ubitsoft SQL Enlight - Integrated prettyprinter for SQL Server Management Studio. (via Programmers Heaven) Hints on how to componentize existing code - An analysis-driven approach from Patrick Smacchia. NSIS Quick Start - For deploying .NET applications. Rename Start...
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