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Open Source Developer Conference, Sydney, 2008

During the 30 minutes of presentation, I demonstrated the following bits and pieces of open source and or free Microsoft bits.

Demo set 1: Open source licensing and giving back

• ASP.NET MVC on Stackoverflow.com: licensed via MS-PL
• Codeplex.com; the main, but not only, Microsoft repository of our open source bits and source
• Oomph: Microformats toolkit (source on codeplex.com) incorporating:
  • LiveWriter; hCard plugin; publish; show IE plugin, same site with Firefox Tail for that other browser.

Demo set 2: PHP, SQLServer 2008 & Frameworks

• IIS7/PHP; Modules mapping via FastCGI
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer and Web Application Installer
• MSSQLPHPDriver; show PHP + results; codeplex

Demo set 3: Dynamic Language Runtime, IronPython, IronRuby

• IronPython; ipy hello world winforms and as 'code behind' in ASP.NET
• Photoviewer; using local Chiron, browser, ruby in browser doing HTML/DOM
• Silverlight Toolkit: MS-PL controls and data visualisation tools. MS-PL
• Mono team's Moonlight. Silverlight for Linux

Published Monday, December 15, 2008 8:52 AM by nhodge