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The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.
Twitter; Facebook and friends is the place where I spend most of my day. For work and play. Separating work and play is difficult in single-column twitter clients. Enter mutliple columns, filtering as base requirements for my perfect twitter client. Stuck Read More...

Posted Sunday, September 06, 2009 12:44 PM by nhodge | 0 Comments

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Open Source Goodness Comes in Threes
Hyper-V Instrumentation via Linux driver, source code contribution (GPLv2) Microsoft Live@EDU integration for Moodle via a plug in, PHP source code contribution (GPLv2) Gestalt. <script language=”ruby | python”> client-side scripting (MsPL) Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:24 PM by nhodge | 0 Comments

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Unintended Consequences
Two unintended consequences of Microsoft open sourcing: 1. Google Chrome (on Windows) uses the Windows Template Library (WTL) published under the Ms-PL 2. Mono outpaces Java for Linux desktop application adoption . An interesting quotation from the article: Read More...

Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 1:26 PM by nhodge | 0 Comments

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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, Read More...

Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 8:52 AM by nhodge | 1 Comments

Demos and Links from Edge of the Web, Nov’08 Perth
During the 50 minutes of presentation (including at least 9 ICHC images), I demonstrated the following bits and pieces of open source and or free Microsoft bits. Demo set 1: Web Standards Live Mesh Mobile : take photo to mesh on laptop MacOS X 10.5 client Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:08 PM by nhodge | 1 Comments

Hidden in the Mists of the Forest
Hidden in the mists of the autumnal forests (northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere it is springtime!) Microsoft opened a new door to interesting Opensource-web things: http://www.microsoft.com/web/content.aspx?id=microsoft-introduces-installers-for-open-source-apps Read More...

Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 11:01 AM by nhodge | 0 Comments

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Microsoft, Open Source and IronRuby
John Lam is interviewed by James Turner at OSCON 2008 . To understand the interface between Microsoft and Open source, this is an excellent overview. With some Ruby stuff duck-typed in there, too Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:02 PM by nhodge | 1 Comments

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