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

February 2007 - Posts

    We're Writing Firefox Plug-ins? Interview with Ian Gilman and Thoughts on 10 Months at Microsoft
    by hjanssen on February 28, 2007

    Hank Interviews Photosynth Developer Ian Gilman and shares his thoughts after 10 months at Microsoft...... more

    • Wednesday, February 28, 2007
    • in: Media
    • hjanssen
    Codeplex Update
    by MichaelF on February 26, 2007

    Update for week ending: 2/23/2007... more

    • Monday, February 26, 2007
    • in: Downloads
    • MichaelF
    PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer
    by MichaelF on February 22, 2007

    This paper will cover the installation and initial configuration of PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows up to a point where a database is created and plpgsql is installed in it. We assume an ability to walk through the install wizard in general, though screens... more

    • Thursday, February 22, 2007
    • in: Dev Center
    • MichaelF
    Virtual PC 2007 Released as a Free Download
    by MichaelF on February 20, 2007

    Just a quick note to let Port 25 readers know that yesterday Microsoft released Virtual PC 2007 as a free download...... more

    • Tuesday, February 20, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Conversations are what it's all about...LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit
    by anandeep on February 15, 2007

    I am writing this from the Big Apple. The Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit is in New York and running from February 13th through February 15th. I questioned the wisdom of holding a conference in February on the East coast rather than the milder shores of the West Coast - since I arrived the middle of a snowstorm after a day's delay caused by flight cancellations. But once I got here the bright... more

    • Thursday, February 15, 2007
    • in: Community
    • anandeep
    Codeplex Project Update
    by MichaelF on February 15, 2007

    Two updates this week but I also have some bigger news to report!... more

    • Thursday, February 15, 2007
    • in: Downloads
    • MichaelF
    Microsoft-Novell Interoperability Lab – Sneak Peek
    by Sam Ramji on February 14, 2007

    Based on the email I received I would say that many Port 25 readers noticed my post last week on job openings in my new lab. Thank you for your positive responses (and especially the resume submissions)! Brad Cutler, my counterpart at Novell, has been overwhelmed with responses as well, so thank you on his behalf. I’ve called this a sneak peek because there is much work ahead of us, but it’s time... more

    • Wednesday, February 14, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    Nixon Goes to China
    by MichaelF on February 13, 2007

    At least four academic research papers in the last 12 months have observed IT vendors appear to have made investments in open source software in order to combine open source assets with their proprietary software portfolios or other revenue drivers-- using open source to strengthen a “value chain” that might extend across other software products, hardware, and consulting services. The largest publicly... more

    • Tuesday, February 13, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Interesting Finds
    by billhilf on February 12, 2007

    This morning I’ve been catching up on the status of Perl 6. Years ago, Perl was something I used a lot for all sorts of tasks, including a lot of backend data wrangling for a couple of the startups I worked at. One of the benefits and banes of Perl is its tremendous flexibility. It is powerful, but given enough rope…. When I came across one of Damian Conway’s contributions to Perl 6, ‘junctions... more

    • Monday, February 12, 2007
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Codeplex Projects Update
    by MichaelF on February 09, 2007

    In response to some requests from Port 25 visitors, this week I am going to start a weekly series of posts focused on new Codeplex releases. Because we haven't done this in the past, I'm going to look back about a month on this first post but moving forward I'll provide a weekly update...... more

    • Friday, February 09, 2007
    • in: Downloads
    • MichaelF
    Powershell in Action! Hank interviews Bruce Payette
    by MichaelF on February 08, 2007

    We get quite a few requests to provide more information about Powershell so we decided to go straight to the person who just finished writing the book on Powershell: Powershell in Action, Bruce Payette...... more

    • Thursday, February 08, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Can Open Source Scratch an Itch Before It Happens?
    by anandeep on February 05, 2007

    I am an avid reader of Joel On Software – I find his insights great and very revealing. I was reading a recent blog post by Joel entitled “The Big Picture”  in which he has this to say about open source: “Open source doesn’t quite work like that. It’s really good at implementing copycat features, because there’s a spec to work from: the implementation you’re copying. It’s really good at Itch Scratching... more

    • Monday, February 05, 2007
    • in: Community
    • anandeep
    It's not all technology...
    by MichaelF on February 02, 2007

    If you live on the eastside in the greater Seattle area, you may be among the million-plus people who were out of power during the massive windstorm last month. As Bill Hilf pointed out in his previous blog “what matters”, these are rare intermissions which allow us to step back and understand what sets us apart as “intelligent” beings...... more

    • Friday, February 02, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    A Technical Look at ASP.NET AJAX
    by MichaelF on February 02, 2007

    Following up on our post yesterday here is an interview with ASP.NET Technical Evangelist: Steve Marx. Steve discusses the three components of ASP.NET AJAX and shows us a demo of the software formerly known as ATLAS running on top of PHP on Linux to demonstrate some of the front and backend extraction capabilities... ... more

    • Friday, February 02, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    ASP.NET AJAX Released!
    by MichaelF on February 01, 2007

    I wanted to take a moment to let the Port 25 community that Microsoft has officially released ASP.NET AJAX to the web under the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL)... ... more

    • Thursday, February 01, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
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