open source
In April I donated $5,000 [https://blog.codinghorror.com/donating-5000-to-net-open-source/] of the ad revenue from this website to an open source .NET project. It was exciting to be able to inject some of the energy from this blog into the often-neglected [http://reddevnews.com/blogs/weblog.aspx?blog=2407]
open source
In Codeplex wastes six months reinventing wheels, Ryan Davis has a bone to pick with Microsoft: I saw an announcement [in March, 2007] that CodePlex, Microsoft's version of Sourceforge, has released a source control client. This infuriates me. This cool thing they spent six months (six!) writing is
code review
Ben Collins-Sussman on programmer insecurity [http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=96]: > What do you do when somebody shows up to an open source project with a gigantic new feature that took months to write? Who has the time to review thousands of lines of code? What if there
open source
In Where Are All The Open Source Billionaires? I used this chart as an illustration: Because open source code is freely distributable, anyone can take that code and create their own unique mutant mashup version of it any time they feel like it. Whether anyone else in the world will
.net
Way back in June of last year, I promised to donate a portion of my advertising revenue back to the community: I will be donating a significant percentage of my ad revenue back to the programming community. The programming community is the reason I started this blog in the first
operating systems
David Heinemeier Hansson has a problem with Windows as a programming platform. While I can certainly understand the reasons why some people go with Linux, I have run all but dry of understanding for programmers that willfully pick Windows as their platform of choice. I know a few that are
graphics editor
In my continuing quest for a decently full-featured graphics editor that hasn't succumbed to feature bloat, I recently installed Paint.NET for the first time. I'lll admit that I had low expectations based on the abysmal user interfaces I've experienced in other open source
.net
As I mentioned two weeks ago, my plan is to contribute $10,000 to the .NET open source ecosystem. $5,000 from me, and a matching donation of $5,000 from Microsoft. There's only two ground rules so far: 1. The project must be written in .NET managed
.net
As part of my new advertising initiative, Microsoft and I are teaming up to donate $10,000 in support of open source .NET projects. Why am I focusing on .NET open source projects? In short, because open source projects are treated as second-class citizens in the Microsoft ecosystem. Many highly
linux
Today, bowing to customer demand [http://www.ideastorm.com/], Dell launched a new series of desktops [http://www.dell.com/ubuntu] featuring the free, open-source Ubuntu [http://www.ubuntu.com/] operating system. To my knowledge, this is the first time Dell has ever offered any non-Microsoft operating system on their
open source
Hugh MacLeod asks, if open source is so great, where are all the open source billionaires? If Open Source software is free, then why bother spending money on Microsoft Partner stuff? I already know what Microsoft's detractors will say: "There's no reason whatsoever. $40 billion
software development concepts
I hate software licenses. When I read a software license, what I see is a bunch of officious, mind-numbing lawyerly doublespeak. Blah, blah, blah.. kill me now. If I had my way, everything would be released under the WTFPL. Over time, I've begrudgingly come to the conclusion that,