Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

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...." ... more

• Wednesday, October 03, 2007
• in: Community
• jcannon

Systems Manageability Part 4: Systems Configuration

by kishi on May 25, 2007

System Configuration and Management encompasses all tasks related to the configuration of a host in a standardized and (when possible) centralized way. Many projects in this category provide a common configuration interface, either command-line or GUI-based, designed to ease typical administrative tasks. Other projects, specifically Cfengine, provide a higher level policy-based system to provide... more

• Friday, May 25, 2007
• in: Community
• kishi

Who really needs to gather crash information and what do they need to do with it?

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

• Wednesday, March 07, 2007
• in: Community
• anandeep

Unsexy Development

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

• Friday, October 27, 2006
• in: Community
• anandeep

Testing software on multiple platforms - do we trust the tools or rely on methodology?

by admin on June 28, 2006

Consider this scenario – the CIO’s office just called. They have decided to follow your recommendation and are going to use JBoss (substitute favorite open source software package here) as their application server (substitute database server/web server/whatever server here)...... more

• Wednesday, June 28, 2006
• in: Community
• admin