January 2004 - Posts

Getting Into the Groove
30 January 04 12:23 PM | Joel Semeniuk | 5 comment(s)

I know I’ve mentioned this before to many others, but Groove ROCKS MY WORLD.   We should be singing and dancing in the streets – for once a collaboration product that doesn’t assume I have a T1 connection to everyone.  A collaboration product that understands my need to work offline with having to explicitly take things offline.  Sharepoint?  Blah – for those very reasons!

 

Craig is Blogging!
28 January 04 06:49 PM | Joel Semeniuk | with no comments

Craig Flannagan, MSDN Program Manager for Microsoft Canada, is now blogging – Go Canada!

Speaking of Canada, If you are in for some humor (um, humour?), go and read Rory’s latest post on Stupid Canadians.  The comments are priceless.  Enjoy.

Derek is an Regional Director
23 January 04 05:57 PM | Joel Semeniuk | 1 comment(s)

 I received my official email today stating that I’ve maintained my Regional Director status with Microsoft.  Happiness.  Even better, an old employee/friend Derek Hatchard is now also part of our mix.  Derek is a great guy – real bright – I’d like to say I taught him everything he knows, but that’s clearly not the case.   Derek is located in the Canadian East coast and is doing lots of great things.

Da Vinci's Code
12 January 04 11:22 PM | Joel Semeniuk | 54 comment(s)

Just started reading The Da Vinci code this weekend.  Yikes, can’t put it down.  If you’re into religion, conspiracies, secret societies you should go and read this book.  It’s also brought back my fascination with PHI. 

SharpDevelop - wow
12 January 04 11:16 PM | Joel Semeniuk | 5 comment(s)

So, I’m planning on doing a bunch of presentations at our local universities.  I am expecting a “if it ain’t free, we don’t want it” type of crowd so I went searching for a free – open source (lightning strikes) editor and stumbled across SharpDevelop (www.icsharpcode.net).  I was blown away.  How can this be…?  Open source…. Hmmmm. 

I also am taking a look at Jext (www.jext.org) – also very nice.  But still need to do a command line compile. 

Anyway, I’m looking for other great open source editors… if you have any favorites.. pass them my way. 

How do you make money on Open Source solutions?  I don’t get it.  Use open source tools to build more open source – free tools.  Where is the business model – someone, please help me understand where all the money is.