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Just spotted this by Paula Bach over on Microsoft's Port 25 site... CodePlex project developers wanted The data from the project will be used for Paula's PhD dissertation project which looks at usability support features in Open Source projects.... Todd Ogasawara 2008-07-02T05:16:54-08:10

Teaching Open Source development requires Open Source ways. I teach at Seneca College in Toronto, and we've been teaching inside the Mozilla community for the last three years with some very good results (I'll be talking about this at OLS in a... Chris Tyler 2008-07-01T06:46:56-08:11

When I saw this ZDNet blog headline in my RSS feed the other day... ZDNet - Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney: Will Bill Gates’ departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft? ...my first thought was: Here we go again, another... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-30T05:16:57-08:12

I read about the U.S. government's USAsearch.gov site using the Vivisimo engine for search federal, state, and local government sites in the U.S. This is the same engine used by the Clusty search site (which somehow always reminds me of Krusty the... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-27T09:18:12-08:13

I read about the U.S. government's USAsearch.gov site using the Vivisimo engine for search federal, state, and local government sites in the U.S. This is the same engine used by the Clusty search site (which somehow always reminds me of Krusty the... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-27T05:18:09-08:14

Here's something that's a bit dated (a few weeks old) but something I've been meaning to mull over and comment on. On May 28, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said that... Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google (as reported... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-25T07:17:36-08:15

The first Linux Plumbers Conference has just been announced. It takes place on September 17-19 in Portland, Oregon, back-to-back with this year's Linux Kernel summit. The main topics of this conference are laid out in advance, but the organizers are leaving time for last-minute additions and have set aside rooms for ad hoc meetings. There will also be a few tutorials (for which a Call for Proposals is open). Andy Oram 2008-06-24T16:47:05-08:16

The Open Source Census is a collaborative project that collects Open Source usage information from companies that volunteer the information. The OSS Discovery tool requires Ruby to be installed on a system to be run. The tool collects fingerprints of many Open... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-23T05:16:52-08:17

The brand new IronRuby.net Wiki fired up yesterday (June 18). This wik.is Deki Wiki based site. This is the place to go for information about IronRuby. IronRuby currently requires you to download and build from source. But, as soon as the... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-20T05:16:44-08:18

This is by no means new news, but I just read a blog from Matthew McKenzie about WRT54G-based open source routers and it got me thinking. First though, for those not in the know, the Linksys WRT54G can be loaded with a... Dustin Puryear 2008-06-19T10:47:00-08:19

Anandeep just wrote a little blog questioning the long-term link between High Performance Computing (HPC) and open source. His logic boils down to this: 1. HPC, like many other technologies, starts with the need for a small set of people to do... Dustin Puryear 2008-06-19T10:17:01-08:20

I just read through “Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services” at Technet. Nothing too big here. The security issues of rdesktop are no different than that of Microsoft’s mstsc.exe client. However, the paper did leave me with a... Dustin Puryear 2008-06-18T09:47:03-08:21

I was just reading Chris Travers'... Technical Analysis: Remote Administration of Windows Systems with SSH (9 page PDF) ...which discusses using SSHWindows in a minimal installation of Cygwin. I've always felt a little uncomfortable installing Cygwin for just a single function... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-18T05:16:59-08:22

code_swarm is an animated visualization of the development of software. Its site currently has animated visualizations for Apache httpd, Eclipse, PostgreSQL, and Python. code_swarm: An experiment in organic software visualization You can see code and developers in the animations. Really fascinating... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-16T05:16:48-08:23

A while ago, I published a teaser on this blog about using the Web as a whole as a data storage object. At that time I said that "the Web right now is cut down into a million pieces that don't talk... Bruno Pedro 2008-06-15T06:17:03-08:24

A project was recently removed from Codeplex because it was not offering the source code. The project, Sandcastle, apparently violated Microsoft’s “Open Source policy”. Thus, Microsoft removed the project. That’s cool and all, but that is not what is really of note.... Dustin Puryear 2008-06-13T10:17:20-08:23

John Lam (of IronRuby fame) started summarizing his TechEd 08 experience at... IronRuby at Tech Ed 2008 Be sure to click on the whiteboard photo in his blog entry. The higher resolution images on Flickr will let you read the whiteboarded IronRuby... Todd Ogasawara 2008-06-13T04:17:13-08:24

They listened! I just blogged yesterday about the UI of Codeplex (well, a bit) and apparently there is at least some effort in getting the Codeplex community to help better design the way that Codeplex works. I should add a caveat to... Dustin Puryear 2008-06-12T14:17:13-08:24

I thought I would officially announce that Mike Orr and I are writting a book for Manning on Google App Engine. It is a bit strange to be working on a new book, when the first book I wrote isn't even released... Noah Gift 2008-06-11T20:17:08-08:23

Okay, okay, so Microsoft makes forays into open source now and then, including both Codeplex and even some sponsored projects that are hosted on Sourceforge. It looks like they made a bit of a more high-profile push, in marketing terms, by becoming... Dustin Puryear 2008-06-11T20:17:08-08:24