Tag Archives: Open Source
.NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community
Things are being awesome!!! Microsoft is going bold with .NET as Open Source. It will be available on Mac and Linux and the Visual Studio Community is going to benefit as never before. Scott Hanselman said it so greatly that I cannot add anything on top of that. Click the picture below and get on […]
A text every software engineer should skim or even read…
The following text, by Neal Stephenson, a long but very nice read, is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. …This is “the Word” — one man’s word, certainly — about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence…. In […]
Meet John Musser, API Pioneer
March 12, 2013 [This text is originally from ApiEconomist. Find the original link below.]JOHN MUSSER IS THE FOUNDER OF PROGRAMMABLEWEB, THE LEADING ONLINE RESOURCE ON OPEN APIS. JOHN IS AN INDUSTRY EXPERT ON APIS, QUOTED IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES, FORBES, AND WIRED. HE’S A FREQUENT SPEAKER AT CONFERENCES INCLUDING SXSW, DREAMFORCE, […]
Working with Git and GitHub
I’ve started using Git distributed source code control recently and I have to say I love you, Git. I used to complain and be blocked when I was working with Team Foundation Server and that for some reason, the TFS server was down. Now, I just don’t worry about that because Git allows me to […]
One more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities
Jean Paoli, Senior Director of XML Architecture at Microsoft, is one of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and has been a significant player in the worldwide XML community since 1985, when the technology was still known as SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). He helped start the […]
ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source
This is transcript of a blog post done by the great Scott Gu. to talk about Microsoft great ASP.NET products being open source ! Scott runs the development teams that build ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, CLR, IIS, Media Server, and the Visual Studio Tools for Web Development and Windows Phone 7. Microsoft has made the source […]
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