March 2007 - Posts

    Decoding Liberation: An interview with Samir Chopra
    by anandeep on March 30, 2007

    Samir Chopra is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Doctorate in Philosophy and is interested in the intersection of politics and technology – specifically information technology. In this post we both interview Samir and provide a chapter from his forthcoming book: Decoding... more

    • Friday, March 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • anandeep
    New Codeplex Projects....
    by MichaelF on March 29, 2007

    Seven new Codeplex projects...... more

    • Thursday, March 29, 2007
    • in: Downloads
    • MichaelF
    Tales from the road, Vegas, and the Microsoft Technology Summit…
    by billhilf on March 28, 2007

    I recently spent time in South East Asia. As always these trips are enlightening, but as I wrote before one of the most important missions of these visits is to understand the health, growth and diversity of the local software economy. And it’s not just the Microsoft related software economies, but how all software is growing in a country.... more

    • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Are you inspired by Open?
    by Bryan Kirschner on March 23, 2007

    I’ve been running silent for awhile—ironically, because I had too much to blog about. Sam Ramji and I attended (and sponsored) Olliance Group & DLA Piper’s 2007 Open Source Think Tank earlier this month. Participants were encouraged to “live blog” (under an honor code)—but I found I was booked 7 AM – Midnight and was fully engaged in what was going on. Since then I’ve been mulling over the things... more

    • Friday, March 23, 2007
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Systems Manageability - Part 1: Why Manageability Matters
    by kishi on March 21, 2007

    This is the 19th year I have spent in the Information Technology business, out of which more than 15 were spent designing and implementing IT environments of various scopes, platforms and sizes. Among several similarities and differences between each implementation, a few constants always emerged, and my favorite of all: Systems Manageability...... more

    Cross-Platform Access to Codeplex Compliments of our Friends at Teamprise
    by MichaelF on March 20, 2007

    Awhile ago we talked to Martin Woodward from Teamprise about their suite of client applications allowing cross-platform access to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Today Teamprise announced free client licenses for developers who want to use them to access Codeplex. In this post we provide information on the announcement as well as a new interview with Martin...... more

    • Tuesday, March 20, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install
    by jcannon on March 16, 2007

    MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as PostgreSQL, however, and one would expect it to perform substantially better than PostgreSQL on Windows because of its thread-based architecture (PostgreSQL... more

    Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time
    by jcannon on March 14, 2007

    Today, a lighter post and link to Sara Ford's blog which talks about her recent presentation to Microsoft employees entitled, "Embracing Open Source on Codeplex." Sara, a developer/evangelist with Microsoft on the Visual Studio Powertoys team, has been a tireless supporter and advocate of change internally on identifying when & where it makes sense to embrace open source collaboration and licensing... more

    • Wednesday, March 14, 2007
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    Technical Analysis: Linux VPN & How-To
    by jcannon on March 09, 2007

    In our continuing series of papers describing both the research undertaken by the Open Source Software Lab, and technical tips, here is the latest networking configuration technical analysis. Abstract: This document provides the reader with an analysis... more

    MySQL Conference 2007
    by jcannon on March 08, 2007

    Folks may be aware of our technical collaborations with open source companies like Zend, JBoss and SugarCRM, but to-date, our work with MySQL hasn't gained a ton of attention. Some background. Over the summer of 2006, MySQL joined the Visual Studio Industry Program, a program that allows institutions, researchers, companies,etc. access to the extensibility components of Visual Studio. This, in turn... more

    • Thursday, March 08, 2007
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    Who really needs to gather crash information and what do they need to do with it?
    by anandeep on March 07, 2007

    I just got back from Cambridge (in the United Kingdom, not the one by the Charles river) from the Microsoft Research / Technische Universitat Darmstadt “Reliability Analysis of System Failure Data” conference. The objective of the conference was to bring academia and industry together to deal with a problem in the field of reliability analysis...... more

    • Wednesday, March 07, 2007
    • in: Community
    • anandeep
    Basketball Blogging and other thoughts...
    by billhilf on March 05, 2007

    Four random bits....... more

    • Monday, March 05, 2007
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Inside Port 25
    by MichaelF on March 02, 2007

    For those who weren't aware there is a series of blogs penned by Todd Osagawara and Matt Asay on O'Reilly's OnLAMP site called: Inside Port 25...... more

    • Friday, March 02, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
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