by jcannon on April 14, 2008
John Lam brings word of a Ruby meet-up at the MVP Summit happening today at 2PM at the International Meeting Place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Quote John: "I’m going to be at the Convention Center from around 1:30 onwards. There... more
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by jcannon on April 01, 2008
Last Friday, March 28th, 2008 was Microsoft's first company-wide Open Source Day. This was a significant event and milestone in the company's move towards openness and was made freely available to any employee interested in attending. Packed full of panels... more
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by jcannon on April 01, 2008
We wanted to thank the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for the commitment and willingess to work together - and today, making public the Microsoft Open Source Initiative: The Microsoft Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate... more
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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
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by jcannon on January 31, 2008
I'm going to guess that some of our audience knows what ComicCon is - I'm familiar as I was huge DC and Marvel fan in the mid-90's...Who was not, I suppose. My favorite hero, to this day, is Batman (he fights the fight without any special powers....) - and the annual San Diego event was an easy way to track that industry, and the entertainment space around it. Suffice to say, I'm excited for the Dark... more
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by jcannon on January 21, 2008
Earlier this month, I was reading the Open Solutions Alliance's top predictions for 2008....this was based on polling they conducted within their membership base. It's a good read and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys that kind of fodder (there's no shortage of "predictions," it seems, this time of year.) The full report is here (PDF). One in particular caught my eye: The CEO of Adaptive Planning... more
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by jcannon on January 10, 2008
It's going to be a busy couple months in the open source industry, with a number of influential conferences convening over the next six months to discuss the latest issues, advances and topics facing OSS. More on those later, but I wanted to get something quick up on one in particular that Microsoft is participating in...... more
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by jcannon on December 19, 2007
I spend a significant amount of my time crisscrossing Microsoft, looking for (and advocating) interesting ways that our research and development teams are adopting open approaches in their work. It’s not terribly difficult - and, in fact, increasingly easy to find areas where sharing code, participating in community and collaborating with the commercial open source industry are part of what we do every... more
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by jcannon on October 31, 2007
It's been awhile since we've featured any books or authors on Port 25 - you may remember Jeremy Moscowitz on Windows/Linux Integration, and then Linux in a Windows World with Rod Smith. That doesn't mean our library shelves have gone empty though ~ so today we're going to run a small giveaway of some extra copies of .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit we came across.... more
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by jcannon on October 03, 2007
Some news from Scott Guthrie's blog this morning - "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them. Today I'm excited to announce that we'll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year...."
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by jcannon on September 28, 2007
Frequent visitors to Port 25 may be familiar with Paula Bach’s HCI and ICT work from her blogging over the summer. What may not be familiar to many is the collaborative work we’ve done with Tracy Kennedy at the University of Toronto around the intersection of technology and communities. Open source is clearly a manifestation of this intersection. Tracy’s work is impressive, and while her doctoral... more
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by jcannon on September 24, 2007
Just about one year ago, Bill Hilf announced Zend and Microsoft's partnership to enhance PHP performance on Windows Server's IIS web server. This technical collaboration has focused on enhancing the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS product group has been working on a new component for IIS6 and IIS7 called FastCGI... more
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by jcannon on July 05, 2007
We're nineteen days away from OSCON, and very excited about participating at this year's event. Microsoft is a Diamond sponsor of OSCON, and we have a number of interesting open source and Linux interoperability sessions and keynotes planned through the show. For those who can attend, we'll hope you join us for some or all of the below...... more
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