by anandeep on August 17, 2007
My overall impression was that OSCON was lower key than last year. There seemed to be fewer booths in the Exhibition floor and less palpable excitement in the venue. A lot of people were complaining about the quality of the tutorials and the talks. Or it may just be that this was my second time around attending OSCON and it didn’t have the same quality of excitement for me compared to the very first... more
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by anandeep on April 03, 2007
Michael Koziarski (a.k.a) Koz is one of the core group of about 12 people who holds the keys to the code repository for the Rails framework (also known as Ruby on Rails. They’re all listed on the Rails core page with name and mug-shot. (I checked, a guy who looks like the Michael I interviewed has his mug shot on the page!)... more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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by anandeep on December 05, 2006
There's two things people figure out about me (mainly because I tell them!) - one that I am crazy about airplanes and two that I love stirring controversy! And in this blog I get an opportunity to bring those two favorite things together...... more
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by anandeep on November 16, 2006
One of the great things about my job at the Open Source Software Lab (OSSL) here at Microsoft (besides being able to work with both Linux and Windows!) is that I get to go computer science research conferences. I try not to attend the purely academic ones, but the ones in which both industry and academic research issues are addressed. I just got back from ISSRE (pronounced “is-ree”) i.e. the 17th... more
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by anandeep on October 27, 2006
I loved doing development in a research and university environment. You got to write cool code, prove new ideas, break new ground and generally ended up with bragging rights to say “I did an image recognition algorithm on a multi-layer architecture implementing reactive and planning parallelism on an autonomous robot!” When I moved to industry and wrote software for day to day use – things changed... more
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by MichaelF on October 06, 2006
In the IT industry it is axiomatic that whatever is new will be old, and will then be new again! Consider the “Service Bureau” approach that was used in the mainframe days, in which an organization’s computing needs were taken care of by a “Service Bureau” that maintained the infrastructure, served up the applications and provided the support for the users. The Service Bureau typically served many... more
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by MichaelF on August 23, 2006
My first impression about LinuxWorld 2006 was – This is BIIIIG! As I walked down the escalator in the Moscone Center in San Francisco I could see the big flashy banners, the props and the mascots from the vendors. It seemed like just another tradeshow. But how could that be, wasn’t this supposed to be “Linux”-world? ... more
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by jcannon on August 15, 2006
Hank Jenssen and myself attended the OSCON on the 27th and 28th of July. We did not attend the tutorials or the Executive briefing but were there two days of the two and a half days the sessions were in progress. We also attended the keynotes on both days (27th and 28th July). As a strategy, Hank and I discussed the sessions and their subject matter, splitting up to attend different sessions in... more
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by MichaelF on August 14, 2006
I recently attended OSCON 2006, and had a lot of fun being there. Microsoft’s presence in the Open Source World is still a novelty (to say the least), so I always got a reaction out of people at the conference when they saw my badge! ... more
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by jcannon on July 18, 2006
There is a buzz word floating out there – “business readiness”. It seems that the marketing teams here at Microsoft are trying to capture something important to organizations and people that are responsible for selecting, deploying and maintaining software for businesses. What does it really mean though?... more
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