by Sam Ramji on November 09, 2007
Sam recently interviewed Daniel Lopez, Founder and CTO and Erica Brescia, CEO of Bitrock from their Spain headquarters. Daniel and Erica discuss their experiences and challenges developing open source applications and launching the BitNami project.... more
- Friday, November 09, 2007
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by Sam Ramji on October 25, 2007
We're excited to post Sam's discussion with Allison Randal that took place at this year's OSCON event in Portland, OR. Allison discusses the importance of particpation in the open source community and her perspective on Microsoft.... more
- Thursday, October 25, 2007
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by Sam Ramji on October 18, 2007
Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation - an open source community - supported by a non-profit foundation - dedicated to building an open source development environment. In this podcast, Mike joins us to discuss some history around Eclipse, the larger open source community - and his varied background in accounting and computer science. Mike also touches on the architecture... more
- Thursday, October 18, 2007
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by Sam Ramji on September 26, 2007
While at OSCON Sam and I had a chance to spend some time with Simon Peyton Jones to talk about Haskell, functional programming and other topics...... more
- Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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by Sam Ramji on August 30, 2007
On the day before OSCON officially kicked off I was heading back from the Oregon Convention Center to downtown and ended up standing on the MAX next to someone who caught my attention for two reasons. First, he was the first person to tell me about the O'Reilly/Moglen conversation from earlier in the morning which I had missed. Second he had a cool flash based microphone that he used to record podcasts... more
- Thursday, August 30, 2007
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by Sam Ramji on August 03, 2007
Back in the Spring, Sam Ramji attended an Olliance event entitled, the Open Source Think Tank. It's a smaller gathering, and well attended by nearly 100 or so executives and influential developer-users of open source software. During one of the sessions, Sam and Justin Steinman took an impromptu moment to answer some tough questions regarding the nature of the Microsoft-Novell partnership. Justin Steinman... more
- Friday, August 03, 2007
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by Sam Ramji on June 15, 2007
I had the opportunity to sit down with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic last month in San Francisco at the OSBC. We had a great discussion, which I opened bluntly by saying, “You don’t need to tell me about your software; I’ve seen it, my lab team thinks it’s cool, and we’re impressed.” He was happy to hear it but probably not surprised. Javier and Doug MacEachern (their CTO, and a maintainer for... more
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by Sam Ramji on May 31, 2007
I got the chance to meet many extremely smart developers last month at SambaXP, the annual Samba developer conference. After attending I’m convinced that the Samba team knows more about how Windows networking works than most Microsoft developers...... more
- Thursday, May 31, 2007
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by MichaelF on April 30, 2007
As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight...... more
- Monday, April 30, 2007
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by MichaelF on April 30, 2007
Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic Language Runtime that allows developers to use languages such as Python, Java and Ruby to program in Silverlight...... more
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by MichaelF on April 13, 2007
Sam sits down with a veteran of the video game industry, Development Manager of the XNA Community Game Platform and Star Trek Deck Plan expert: Frank Savage...... more
- Friday, April 13, 2007
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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
- Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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by hjanssen on February 28, 2007
Hank Interviews Photosynth Developer Ian Gilman and shares his thoughts after 10 months at Microsoft...... more
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by MichaelF on February 08, 2007
We get quite a few requests to provide more information about Powershell so we decided to go straight to the person who just finished writing the book on Powershell: Powershell in Action, Bruce Payette...... more
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