I picked up the lead on this one via Bruce Hopkins who pointed out to an interesting post by Shaun Walker - No Respect for Windows Open Source. There is a great element of truth to it - Open Source projects on the MSFT platform are looked down upon. I have also had the unfortunate privilege of witnessing...

Chris Garrett has a very reactive post to ThreadWatch's MS bashing . I concur with Chris - a website that professes to be "less noise, more signal" is certainly not using the Dolby System to lessen their noise about Microsoft. There is nothing more debilitating than listening to MS Bashing at work when...

Jon Galloway's posting on why ' Joel got it wrong' has made me rethink Joel's College Advice . I had added to Joel's advice earlier on but I too don't think that 'C' in particular, is the correct choice. The emphasis really must be on *'Data structures and Algorithms' . Why? The most critical CS course...

SourceGear recently introduced ' Dragnet' - I think this directly competes with FogBugz . I got to use FogBuz in a fairly large project last year and I was quite impressed by its simplicity. Except for the annoying 'picture of the day', it performed remarkably well but I'll certainly check out DragNet...

Phil Stanhope has some interesting points to add to Sam Gentile's posting on 'Building Distributed Systems'. We are certainly in the midst of a change not just in technologies but the methodologies to go with it. Back in the late '80s and early '90s - I had spent considerable time on developing systems...

Michael Platt has a couple of good postings regarding 'Architectural Thinking' . He mentioned a few approaches that are undertaken during the process, notably, 'divide and conquer' and 'simulated annealing' . Thinking about architectures is a very intuitive and thus, a personalized phenomena that encompasses...

Roy has a good posting and essay on misjudging development approaches. My thanks to Roy for the posting and "divulging the soul" on the matter. Chalk it up on experience and we all have gone through that before. I wouldn't blame Roy's approach on his 'directory services' project and I personally, do...

I am presenting at The Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) Summer Institute at Trinity College (Hartford CT) on July 2nd . The H-FOSS Project is primarily for undergraduate computing students who want to get involved in building free and open source software for use by humanitarian organizations. Details below...

Chris Bowen is going to present at the Connecticut .NET Developers Group meeting on 26th Sept (Tues 6-8PM). Chris is a co-author on the new book on the Visual Studio 2005 Team System . More event details at the CTDOTNET website .

Rob Caron has posted more info regarding the VS2K5 Team Foundation Installation . A must-read if you are getting into the VSTS.