February 2005 - Posts

Supranational Community
Have you ever participated in an Open Source or Shared Source project? I have and I know why I did so. Why did you? In college, I took a course on non-Euclidean geometry. My professor was a numbers theorist who worked at the NSA before entering into academia. Read More...
'Change Source Control' Menu Disappears in Visual Studio
A reader recently emailed me the following issue/question: "I recently installed the VS 2005 December CTP on a machine that also has VS 2003 installed. I uninstalled the CTP today and now my VS2003 'change source control' menu choice (from the file menu) Read More...
Source Control, GotDotNet, VS.NET, and Dream Job #3
Tone Engel reports that, "Joined the FlexWiki GotDotNet group last night for source code access which is provided through a custom source code control provider that integrates with Visual Studio."* I am an avid FlexWiki and GotDotNet user/contributor Read More...
SourceGear Developing Linux/Solaris/MacOS client for Team Foundation
I'm a little late to print with this announcement but it's just too darn intriguing to not share. [ John Lawrence , January 12, 2005] " Erik Sink blogs about some very interesting news from SourceGear I'm writing this blog entry to share an exciting bit Read More...
Will Blogs Replace Newspapers?
[ Jason Salas ] "Newspapers are a dying medium. They have been for the last several years, and it's only going to get worse. [...] The rise in blogging applications and the millions of people flocking to use them, serving as ad hoc reporters, has already Read More...
WikiWiki: The Power of Collaborative Content Development
Jon Udel has posted a fascinating multimedia demonstration of the power of collaborative editing and social sanctioning by exploring the life of a single Wikipedia topic over a two year period. Audio required. Slightly more than halfway through the demo Read More...
NYTimes on WikiNews
The New York Times , whose login-to-read model drives me to distraction, posted a thought-provoking article by Aaron Weiss , a member of the Unassociated Press , about WikiNews on February 10, 2005. (Also see the latest WikiNews headlines .) A few excerpts Read More...
The Era of Transparency: WikiNews Wants You
Joi Ito blogs about WikiNews.org ( EN | DEU | JPN? | FR | SE | RU | NL ) today, a nascent project started by a group from Wikipedia . You, fearless and intrepid blogger: WikiNews wants to harness your journalistic energy and perspective. They provide Read More...
Eric Sink's Tenets of Transparency
In his latest article for MSDN, Tenets of Transparency , Eric Sink continues his "non-legendary" crusade to confound his two point five critics and tickle his burgeoning horde of fans pink with superior writing, corn-fed frankness, and incisive insights Read More...

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