March 2008 - Posts

    How a cowboy spends two days in Boston: Drupalcon 2008
    by Garrett Serack on March 24, 2008

    Howdy ya'll, I was recently in Boston, and managed to spend a couple of days at Drupalcon , where Port25 was a silver level sponsor for the event. The herd was over 800 attendees--all focused on Drupal . Needless to say, I was duly impressed. What's Drupal... more

    • Monday, March 24, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Garrett Serack
    Inside the OSS Lab
    by SteveZ on March 20, 2008

    To some folks outside of Microsoft, the Open-Source Software Lab has been a sort of mysterious place. A place where we study Linux and open-source software, cursing our enemies while brewing our malevolent plans to combat those nasty FOSS developers.... more

    • Thursday, March 20, 2008
    • in: Community
    • SteveZ
    Supernova
    by Sam Ramji on March 19, 2008

    I’m writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I’m going to announce the beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the... more

    • Wednesday, March 19, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • Sam Ramji
    Microsoft CITASA Port 25 Award Winner Announced
    by MJM on March 18, 2008

    A couple of months ago, I mentioned that Microsoft would be sponsoring Computer and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association’s (CITASA) pre-conference and graduate workshop on July 31, 2008 in Boston, MA. That sponsorship... more

    • Tuesday, March 18, 2008
    • MJM
    Introduction: OSS Lab Manager Stephen Zarkos
    by SteveZ on March 14, 2008

    As my first blog on Port25, I suppose it's appropriate to write a couple paragraphs about myself... so here it goes: My name is Stephen Zarkos, and I am a Program Manager at the Open-Source Software Lab at Microsoft. I work directly with many of the other... more

    • Friday, March 14, 2008
    • in: Community
    • SteveZ
    NXT Up: OSBC
    by jcannon on March 12, 2008

    At last years, OSBC, Microsoft hosted its first annual Open Source ISV Forum. In large part, the event was focused on facilitating a discussion around enabling open source innovation on Microsoft technologies, and to help potential partners reach new... more

    • Wednesday, March 12, 2008
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    Microsoft’s announcement of DreamSpark
    by KarriD on March 05, 2008

    My name is Karri Dunn, I am joining the Port25 team focusing on developer interests. I am a 10 year veteran at Microsoft. I’ve always been in dev or IT Pro groups at Microsoft and have participated in many programs, offerings, and product launches. As... more

    • Wednesday, March 05, 2008
    • in: Community
    • KarriD
    PHP on Windows
    by hjanssen on March 04, 2008

    I have this really odd feeling of Dejavu. The last blog I wrote ( here ), I started by saying that I have been very delinquent with writing blogs. So what do I do? I continue to be very delinquent with my blogs! If anything, I am consistent! :) So, why... more

    The Apache Visit to the Microsoft Campus: Day Three
    by Garrett Serack on March 03, 2008

    Day two moseyed late into the night...well for me anyway--cowboys wake with the sun. Day three turned out to be a day full of surprises for me--most of the sessions were significantly more interesting than I would have guessed. We started the day with... more

    • Monday, March 03, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Garrett Serack
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