by Bryan Kirschner on October 28, 2008
The city of Matsue, Japan is using Ruby to promote regional economic development . One of the unexpected highlights of the recent GOSCON , was a gentleman from Matsue coming up to me after I had given my talk about open source and Microsoft and saying "I am using IronRuby . I love it." It was a nice moment because - even in the best of times - public sector IT typically has resource constraints that... more
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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 are a lot of central public meeting places at the convention center. From where I sit at my desk this morning, it looks like the “International Meeting... more
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by MJM on April 04, 2008
Jamie blogged about Open Source Day earlier this week . I’d like to provide a little more context about what the day was and why we did it. About 6 months ago, our team was discussing the fact that, while many external people understand what Microsoft is trying to do in the open source space, many folks inside Microsoft still aren't fully aware. As a result, we continuously discover people across Microsoft... more
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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 and shared source projects on Codeplex, p articularly 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... 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 throughout the show. For those who can attend, we'll hope you join us for some of the highlights below: Bill Hilf will be keynoting Year In Review... more
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