The Daily Grind 1029 by Mike Gunderloy Wednesday, December 6, 2006

It was a quiet day on my corner of the Internet.

• ServerMask 3.0 - Camouflage your IIS server as something else, so hackers will try the wrong attacks. 30-day trial is here, pricing from $149.95.

• �.NET Book Zero� Now Available - Charles Petzold had a beginning .NET chapter get out of hand, so he's made it available as a free download - a 267-page book, in fact.
• Apparently Web Developers Don't Do Web Design - Robert McLaws takes Microsoft to task for leaving Expression Web out of MSDN. I'm not surprised; it's been pretty clear over the last couple of years that they're trying to limit the internal costs of MSDN.
• Toolkit Extender for creating WPF/E components - Shawn Burke makes it easier to play with WPF/E on your Web site.
• Data Access API of the Day, Part I - Mike Pizzo starts a series on Microsoft's data access alphabet soup. There was a time when I kept up on all this stuff.

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