February 2007 - Posts

Extracting string literals into resource files
13 February 07 06:39 PM | John D'Addamio | 0 Comments   

The beta version of our Resource Refactoring Tool has been on CodePlex for a while now but we’re releasing the 1.0 version today. The Resource Refactoring Tool is used to convert string literals into references to entries in a string resource file. Using Read More...

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Reviewing Managed Code
12 February 07 11:46 PM | John D'Addamio | 0 Comments   

My MSDN article "Reviewing Managed Code" was published earlier this month. Last Friday, I learned that it will be translated into several other languages. When I find out which languages and when the translations will be published, I will add comments Read More...

Recommendations for corporate teams developing Community Based Open Source projects
09 February 07 10:47 PM | John D'Addamio | 5 Comments   

As I said in my earlier post , our corporate team develops tools that we want to turn into Community Based Open Source projects. The projects are developed as closed source. Occasionally, the requirements were open and discussed with community members Read More...

What’s different about testing open source projects?
09 February 07 10:32 PM | John D'Addamio | 5 Comments   

Anyone who has read my bio or knows me personally knows that open source is not a new thing for me. For about 25 years, I worked in the proprietary UNIX, FreeBSD, and Linux world. We were using open source software before it was called open source. If Read More...

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