The Daily Grind 696

Sometimes these kids just get up too darned early.

Software

• Google Talk - And now Google is in the IM business. No thank you, I already run two IM clients, which is about two too many.
• Calendarscope - Standalone calendar/appointment app that can synch to your handheld or publish to the Web. If nothing else it's a whole lot more colorful than Outlook's Calendar view. Trial download, $29.95.
• BizTalk Server 2006 Beta-1 Released - And here are the instructions to get signed up for your own copy.
• Monoppix 1.0.8 - New Release - Pretty spiffy to see Windows Forms apps running natively on Linux.

Information

• The Wonders of the Whidbey GAC - More information than I hope I ever need about how the Global Assembly Cache works in Whidbey. (via Brad Abrams)
• NewsGator Technologies Announces the NewsGator Online API - Yes, you can tie your own applications into NewsGator's RSS synchronization engine if you like.
• Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Upgrader's Guide: C# Edition - I reviewed this one yesterday, but there's news: they just made a sample chapter available for free download.

Community

• OpenSpace - Martin Fowler writes about a scheme for self-organizing conferences.

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Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.

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