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Passing Without Talking

by Paula Bach on February 05, 2008

My last blog was about me traveling to Limerick and Toronto. I have now defended my dissertation proposal and passed. (Yay!) Here is a funny story. A week before the proposal defense I created my presentation and rehearsed it every day until the third day before when I began to get a sore throat. I don’t think it was from rehearsing the presentation or nerves or anything like that. Instead it was just... more

• Tuesday, February 05, 2008
• in: Community
• Paula Bach

Community Projects on Codeplex

by jcannon on August 24, 2007

Heading into a long (and quiet) weekend for many folks in the US, I thought I would highlight some useful open source projects on Windows, particularly after reading eWeek's gallery of the Top 25 Most Active Open Source Projects on Codeplex. There's some practical tools in the article - including an open source blogging engine, SQL sample applications and a cool mapping application. What many folks... more

• Friday, August 24, 2007
• in: Community
• jcannon

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

Kudos to Open Source Developers

by jcannon on July 03, 2006

We had to buy our own combination padlocks on our lockers in my high school. I used to forget the combination all the time (—I still have nightmares about that). I finally solved this by writing my combination in hex on the back of the lock. (I figured there was only one other kid in my class who would know what 0F was in base-10, so if anything was ever missing, I’d know where to look.)... more

• Monday, July 03, 2006
• in: Community
• jcannon