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Last month, I had the opportunity to fulfill my childhood dream of going to Australia to speak at Microsoft TechEd. However, little did I know this trip to the Southern Hemisphere would take me to new heights at TechEd New Zealand. The link to the full
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The Channel 9 team met with Sara Ford to go over the state of CodePlex, where the site has been and where it is heading to. Link to video: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NicFill/A-chat-with-Sara-Ford-CodePlex-turns-3-reaches-10000-projects/
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On Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 2pm, CodePlex surpassed the 10,000 project mark just shortly after our 3 year anniversary. Congrats to SharpFitter , a Visual Studio 2008 C# Add-in that dynamically loads plug-ins, for being our 10,000th project. We hope to
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One of the things we’ve been planning to do with The Lounge as our new advertisement provider is to allow project owners with a single click to opt in to have their advertisement revenue go to charity. We believe that pooling individual projects together
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Developers, got a green open source app? Live Search and Gnomedex are sponsoring a Will Code for Green contest. Make the world a little better, win $10,000 + get featured at Gnomedex! Create a green open source app using the Live Search API (search results,
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Black Duck Software announced this morning that CodePlex projects are now searchable via Koders.com and have also been incorporated into its open source Knowledge Base repository. You can find out more information in the Black Duck / CodePlex press release
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Just wanted to share a landmark day we recently had on the team. This past Monday (March 23, 2009), we broke our all-time record for the most visits in one day: 115,646. Our new record is less than 10% over our normal traffic levels, indicating we’ll
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Last year, I ran a series called Visual Studio Tip of the Day on my personal blog. The 382-tip series was very successful, and each post usually got several comments from users. Today, I’ve started a similar series for CodePlex Tips on my personal blog,
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What is the Open Source Club? The Open Source Club (OSC) is a group of volunteers who contribute what they can to the specified open source project each month. If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to an open source project, but didn’t know where to start
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A couple of weeks ago, I attended CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, Ohio - my second time attending as Program Manager for CodePlex. The first year, I spent 2 days sitting non-stop with project owners and site visitors, collecting feedback about the site.
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As mentioned previously from my PDC 2008 trip report , we had our first CodePlex Town Hall meeting. The video is at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/CodePlex-Town-Hall-at-PDC-2008/ Thanks to Dan over at Channel 9 for filming and posting the video! And
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update 2 dec 2008: The Town Hall video can be found at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/CodePlex-Town-Hall-at-PDC-2008/ PDC 2008 was the first time we had a CodePlex-branded booth, and it was the first time we did a CodePlex Town Hall. I was very happy
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Want to showcase your CodePlex project or your favorite CodePlex project at PDC? Channel 9 and CodePlex are sponsoring a CodePlex Community Meetup in the Channel 9 lounge area. We’re looking for volunteers to give 5 minute demos of their projects
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Update 24 Sept 2008: Slides are now posted. Sorry for the delay. Last week, I spoke at the Microsoft ReMix08 UK conference in Brighton, England on CodePlex and on Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. You can read more about the conference overall, the extensive
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For the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I went home to spend time with family, and thought why not speak to as many user groups as possible while I was down there. Little did I know I would be dodging hurricanes and tornadoes the entire trip.
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