24 January 2010 0 Comments

ARCast.TV – An Overview of MVC4WPF – Part 3 of 3

Brian H. Prince talks with Stephen Giffin and John Hannah about their new open source project called MVC4WPF . It is a new framework and guidance package that helps you quickly build enterprise WPF applications

17 September 2009 0 Comments

Scribus – Free Desktop Publishing Software

Scribus is an open source Free DTP software in the same league as Adobe Pagemaker.

28 July 2009 0 Comments

Update on the ‘open source’ transition

Lots to report here. First, the pre-release of version 4.0 has gone out to our hardware partners last week. They get a little jump on it so that they can have harwdare to support the broader beta.

21 July 2009 0 Comments

Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community

In a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. Read presspass [Network World] Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel

14 July 2009 0 Comments

EMTF 2.0 Beta released

It’s been a couple of months since I first blogged about EMTF .

9 July 2009 0 Comments

How-To: Sync an iPod Using Open-source Software

It’s hard to deny how handy it is to plug an iPod into a Mac, fire up iTunes, and watch your device sync with your computer automagically. Take the Mac or iTunes out of the equation, though, and syncing gets a little trickier.

9 July 2009 0 Comments

[PL] Codeplex ma ponad 10 tysięcy projektów

Nawiązując do oficjalnego bloga zespołu Codeplex , serwis hostujący projekty open-source przekroczył magiczną liczbę 10 tysięcy projektów. W podlinkowanym artykule jest więcej statystyk. Moim zdaniem to całkiem przyzwoity wynik jak na 3 lata działania.

16 June 2009 0 Comments

Windows Azure sõbruneb PHPga

Tore näha, et Microsofti pilveplatvorm Azure sõlmib sõprussuhteid PHPga. Nimelt toodi maikuus välja Microsofti rahastatud tehniline eelversioon projektist PHP SDK for Windows Azure . Asja mõte on pakkuda PHP arendajatele abstraktsioonikihti, et teha Windows Azure raamistik neile kättesaadavaks

19 May 2009 0 Comments

TechEd 2009 Online: "How to leverage BizTalk Server 2009 as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)" interview with Danny Garber

We have just announced that previously available from and supported only by the open source .NET community Codeplex ESB Guidance is going to be included into the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Suite with a new name “Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0″. You can still download it for free from the Codeplex starting as soon as mid-June, but the customer support and continues release of new versions will now be managed by Microsoft BizTalk Server product team.  Watch here attached the interview I was given to the TechEd 2009 Online on the subject of leveraging BizTalk Server 2009 as an Enterprise Service Bus.

15 May 2009 0 Comments

SDK do PHP para o Windows Azure

Continuando o foco em interoperabilidade, a Microsoft recentemente lançou o SDK do PHP para o Windows Azure , que é mais um excelente recurso para os entusiastas nessa popular linguagem de programação. O principal objetivo do SDK é de promover uma abstração de alto nível para os desenvolvedores de PHP para que já possam interoperar de forma intuitiva e direta com o Windows Azure tirando proveito imediato dos serviços na Microsoft na nuvem. Para começar, b aixe no site do Codeplex o SDX desse projeto…( read more )

5 April 2009 0 Comments

Jumpstarting your ASP.NET MVC Skills

eek! ScottGu’s blog entry pretty well summed up the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release complete with source code! He pulled together some handy training materials to learn ASP.NET MVC including recorded sessions from MIX09. The one item missing from the blog entry is the ASP.NET MVC Training Kit

11 March 2009 0 Comments

MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies

At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External Research released the source code to two Word 2007 add-ins to allow scientists to markup terms and phrases in their documents/papers with ontologies, such as the ones at http://neurocommons.org .  Some of this is based on previous collaboration with Phil Bourne from UCSD.