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My one-hundred-and-eighty-second podcast is up . Scott's in Mexico this week and he's sitting down with Molly Holzschlag . Molly is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author and correctly works for Opera as an evangelist. She...
In my last post, I presented a general overview of the CodePlex foundation and talked a bit about what it means to the .NET OSS developer, admittedly without much in the way of details. I plan to fix some of that in this post. Before I continue, I encourage...
Yesterday, Microsoft announced some exciting news about the formation of the CodePlex Foundation (not to be confused with CodePlex.com project hosting website despite the unfortunately confusing same name) whose mission is to “ enable the exchange of...
Microsoft’s strategy with open source has evolved over the past several years as we strive to make Windows the platform of choice for customers. My team has participated in that process first hand, we’ve worked hard with the PHP community to ensure...
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Here is a sample ASP.NET MVC application to show how to create URL shrink/snippet/etc and handling of shorten URLs. The purpose of this sample project is to show developers how simple it is to create a simple URL redirection service like tinyurl , is...
Visual identity is important. (Plus, you need something besides the url to put on a tee-shirt.) Cool open source applications all have cool logos. Since this is a collaborative project and since I have NO artistic ability, I thought we could get some...
Yesterday I announced and new project I’m starting( READ HERE ) Since last night 40 people have joined the private wiki to participate in the collaborative design. “The Project” now has a name and a domain ! NETOOP – the .NET Object Oriented Portal www...
Really, I should say, lets DESIGN an application together since I’m going to do most of the building so that I can record How-Do-I videos along the way. The idea is to build a feature rich application and use it’s construction as a collaborative learning...
A while back a young developer emailed me asking for advice on what it takes to become a successful developer. I started to respond, I don’t know. Why don’t you go ask a successful developer? But then I thought, that’s kind of snarky, isn’t it? And who...
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