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The Indulgences of Open Source
Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:11 PM

I am always amused by the complete lack of customer savviness that open source projects sometimes demonstrate. Of course I am not being fair at all and my observations are in no way scientific and I am sure you can find ten more examples of commercial companies doing the same. With that in mind, here are my two examples: DokuWiki A great wiki platform, my favorite... Read More...

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Filed under: Software Development, Open Source, General Software Development

Presentations at WinProTeam - ADO.NET interfaces, Gentle.NET, LINQ, Refactoring
Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:49 PM

Unfortunately my co-presenters were not able to make the WinProTeam presentation due to unforeseen circumstances so I went it alone. This meant that the topics had to change a little but the audience seemed agreeable. The schedule for the evening changed to: ADO.NET Interfaces This is a favorite topic of mine since many people still seem to miss the boat with... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET User Groups, Open Source, General Software Development

Open Source doesn't work (for your typical ISV)
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:31 AM

Can you feel the flamethrowers warming up? :-) Larry O'Brien pointed me to this great SDTimes article "The Changing Face of Open Source" . In the article, Andrew Binstock discusses the challenges in coming up to speed with a complex codebase and contributing real value as a 'volunteer'. He discusses how large projects tend to be primarily driven by commercial... Read More...

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Filed under: Software Development, ISV, Open Source