January 2007 - Posts - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

January 2007 - Posts

    Now Hiring: Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Labs
    by Sam Ramji on January 30, 2007

    With my colleagues at Novell, I am opening a Joint Interoperability Lab. This lab will be around for the long term, and will focus on interoperable virtualization between the two platforms. This lab will be part of the product engineering teams for both companies. In order to get the best candidates for this lab, I'm posting the job descriptions here and inviting the Port 25 community to contact... more

    • Tuesday, January 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    OSSL Roundtable Answers Your Questions (Part 1 of ?)...
    by MichaelF on January 29, 2007

    In December Jamie posted a call for questions in the spirit of Festivus. Here is the result, or at least the first part of it... ... more

    • Monday, January 29, 2007
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Continuing my chain of blogs about the law...
    by Bryan Kirschner on January 26, 2007

    I started this chain of blogs about the law-and-open-source–analogy based on something Matt Asay had written that struck me as interesting—but didn’t sit we me as quite right. So it seems appropriate to tie up this set of blogs with something he wrote that seems to me to be entirely right, and helped frame an comparison about law-and-open-source that makes a lot of sense to me...... more

    • Friday, January 26, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Deploying Identity Management in a Mixed Environment: Hank Interviews Dustin Puryear
    by hjanssen on January 25, 2007

    In this podcast (Part 1 of 2) Hank and Dustin explore issues related to implementing Identity Management solutions and focus primarily on the importance of policies. While the act of deployment is by default important, without proper policies even the best solution can fall short...... more

    • Thursday, January 25, 2007
    • hjanssen
    Photosynth on Firefox
    by Sam Ramji on January 24, 2007

    Today I got an email from Adam Sheppard, who leads development of Photosynth. If you haven’t seen Photosynth yet… it may be because you use Firefox and not IE. That is no longer an obstacle for those curious about the next generation of photo-management technology...... more

    • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    Watching a community grow - Powershell
    by billhilf on January 23, 2007

    I can’t recall if I have ever blogged about this, but we certainly have shown interviews here on Port25 with Jeffery Snover, Architect of PowerShell.  PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language for Windows: Think consistent syntax standard utilities that make managing and administering much easier...... more

    • Tuesday, January 23, 2007
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Port 25 @ LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit
    by jcannon on January 23, 2007

    This February 14-15, 2007, Port 25 is sponsoring LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit - one of the largest Linux and open source gatherings on the East Coast. A number of folks from the lab will be attending - myself (Jamie), Michael Francisco, Bryan Kirschner and Anandeep Pannu, among others. Also worth mentioning, if you're attending, we will be sponsoring a Valentine's Day Evening Reception the night... more

    • Tuesday, January 23, 2007
    • jcannon
    Can the Linux Kernel be More Maintainable? Anandeep interviews Professor Stephen Shach
    by anandeep on January 18, 2007

    Prof Stephen R. (Steve) Schach is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the Vanderbilt University. Port 25 met up with him while he was visiting Seattle, Washington in picturesque Kirkland, Washington on the shores of Lake Washington... ... more

    • Thursday, January 18, 2007
    • in: Media
    • anandeep
    FastCGI and Zend Core 2.0
    by MichaelF on January 17, 2007

    Following-up on the announcement of the Microsoft/Zend technical collaboration from October, we wanted to make sure the Port 25 community was aware of the first set of deliverables...... more

    • Wednesday, January 17, 2007
    • in: Dev Center
    • MichaelF
    SML Update
    by MichaelF on January 15, 2007

    Back in August we posted a podcast with Praerit Garg regarding the announcement of the Service Modeling Language draft specification put together by Microsoft and a number of other leading technology companies.  We wanted to follow-up and provide an update on the specification and the workgroup…... more

    • Monday, January 15, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Sharepoint Learning Kit: Bryan interviews Mike Hines
    by Bryan Kirschner on January 11, 2007

    Bryan interviews Mike Hines of the Sharepoint Learning Kit team to discuss the project and opportunities available to OSS developers and shares some thoughts on a couple of recent articles...... more

    • Thursday, January 11, 2007
    • in: Media
    • Bryan Kirschner
    What Matters...
    by billhilf on January 09, 2007

    You may have heard of the wild wind storms we had in the greater Puget Sound area in the weeks before Christmas. It was intense. I lost power for eight days and was without cable (and Internet connectivity) for five on top of that. The surrounding area was a disaster in the days after the storm...... more

    • Tuesday, January 09, 2007
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Web 2.0... Or: The Web that Wasn't
    by hjanssen on January 08, 2007

    The people I work with in the OSSL group know one of the easiest thing they need to do to push my buttons. The mere mention of Web 2.0 results in tirades from me that usually result in comments that are not fit for print...... more

    • Monday, January 08, 2007
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    First Consulting Group: Building Physican Portal on JBoss & Microsoft
    by jcannon on January 05, 2007

    In our final video interview featuring University Hospitals of Cleveland and their new Physician Portal, we have the opportunity to meet Joe Yelanich, Sr. Account Executive from First Consulting Group (FCG). FCG has a long history in the medical IT industry, and choose to deploy their solution on top of JBoss JEMS and Microsoft technologies. ... more

    • Friday, January 05, 2007
    • in: Media
    • jcannon
    University Hospitals of Cleveland: Healthcare Perspectives
    by jcannon on January 04, 2007

    Yesterday, we published the first of three video interviews with University Hospitals of Cleveland, discussing their new Physician Portal, a healthcare solution built on top Windows Server and JBoss. ... more

    • Thursday, January 04, 2007
    • in: Media
    • jcannon
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