by jcannon on October 10, 2008
When I began my journey with technology, it was with a passion for the web. Living off a friend’s T1 line, I was hacking together HTML when Mosaic was the only show in town. I’m returning to that love of the web next week where I’ll be moving to a new position in Product Management for Windows Live social networking. To the community: I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed learning, listening and working... more
- Friday, October 10, 2008
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by jcannon on September 16, 2008
From our very own Sara Ford , word comes of Codeplex now offering server support for SvnBridge . SvnBridge enables TortoiseSVN to talk to Team Foundation Server. From Sara, "Support for Subversion has been our number one requested feature, and by hosting SvnBridge, our users can now use their favorite Subversion client with any project." Read the full blog here . A picture says a thousand words: more
- Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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by jcannon on July 16, 2008
Our community knows that open source businesses are important to Microsoft. Nothing demonstrates this better than the fact that open source was a key theme in the recent Windows Server 2008 Launch. You can read more about that here . One of the individuals we highlighted was Steve Bjorg , Founder and CTO at Mindtouch . Mindtouch develops an open source collaboration platform. Today, I'm excited to... more
- Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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by jcannon on June 17, 2008
Abstract : Microsoft Terminal Services provides an important set of functionality for remote administration and centralized application management. This service allows administrators to log in remotely and with full access to the system. Similarly, users can log in and run specific applications, which are centrally managed by IT personnel. The standard client for Linux systems is rdesktop. Rdesktop... more
- Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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by jcannon on June 11, 2008
Abstract: SSH has largely replaced Telnet for remote administration of UNIX and Linux systems, but has not yet been used much on Windows. SSH is generally considered to be more secure than Telnet and the Berkeley remote commands (rlogin, etc). This paper uses SSHWindows, a minimal package of Cygwin and OpenSSH. It is available from http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net . The paper is written such that... more
- Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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by jcannon on June 06, 2008
Abstract: Secure remote access to UNIX and Linux systems is generally accomplished through SSH. The most frequent implementation of that protocol is OpenSSH, originally written for the OpenBSD project but now ported to a wide variety of platforms. This paper will show how to use OpenSSH with the Kerberos portion of Active Directory to automate authentication. Download OpenSSH on Linux using Windows... more
- Friday, June 06, 2008
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by jcannon on June 05, 2008
Over the past four years, we’ve been working with Sourceforge on a number of unique programs to help connect developers with the code and communities that interest them. In 2004, we started the Windows Installer XML (WiX) Toolkit project on Sourceforge, licensed under the Common Public License. WiX is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. In 2005, we started the... more
- Thursday, June 05, 2008
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by jcannon on May 29, 2008
Abstract: In the UNIX and Linux world, vi and EMACS have long held positions as the best-developed editors for handling large amounts of code or other text. More recently, an improved vi clone has emerged named VIM (Short for Vi, IMproved). VIM features syntax highlighting, a vi-like command-line interface, and many powerful features for editing large text projects. It has quickly become one of the... more
- Thursday, May 29, 2008
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by jcannon on May 28, 2008
As many frequent readers of Port 25 are aware, Microsoft is committed to the long-term growth of open source. This includes technical collaborations, business partnerships, industry participation – and community outreach. As we continue to grow our investments around open source, we’re looking to add a new Community Manager to our team. This position will be part of the Platform Community team and... more
- Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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by jcannon on May 27, 2008
Over the course of the past year, we've highlighted various community and open source projects on Codeplex . This morning, I wanted to do the same with a very cool open source project that I came across over the weekend called Family.Show . Family.Show is a genealogy project that visualizes family mapping and relationships. The project was released in July 2007 and it's currently at version 2. While... more
- Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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