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My pappy always used to tell me “There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of ‘em have to pee on the electric fence.” … somedays, I’m surprised how often I get to pee on the damn fence. So, here I am writing [...]
I’ll be in Canada tomorrow at the Vancouver Linux User Group meeting. I’ll be talking about Microsoft, Open Source and CoApp. If you are interested in showing up: Time: 7:30 PM-10 PM Where: iQmetrix offices 250 Howe Street – Suite 1210 Vancouver, BC V6C 3R8 CANADA I’d love to have ya’ll out! And, Pizza & [...]
It has been an extreme amount of time since I’ve done a status update—we’ve been working hard here, honest! Under a stack of what seems like a million little things, blogging has taken a backseat to development in recent months, but I’m hoping to correct that (and have some others do some blog posts too!) [...]
The question occasionally comes up regarding how to create Zip files from C# without using GPL (or LGPL) code. If license isn’t an issue, the simple answer is always is to use ZipLib (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/) which is a wonderful, and well known library for manipulating zip files. The other solution is to grab WiX 3.5 (http://wix.codeplex.com/) [...]
I wrote this a couple years ago, and I ended up in a #cls10 session related to it, so I thought I’d post it unedited. Feel free to destroy it. Idea: A self-regulating community meritocracy model for collaboration and cooperation. This can be applied to any type of collaborative organization where individuals [...]
I figured I’d take a quick break, and review the fine wisdom my old pappy has imparted to my blog: Like my pappy always used to tell me “It may not be the easy way, but it’s the cowboy way.” … Well, WinSxS may not be the easy way (yet!), but it will most [...]
Listen up folks, this stuff is big. Today, I’m announcing the beginning of a project that intends to bring a little joy into the hearts of Open Source aficionados on the Windows Platform. The biggest challenge to using/building/maintaining many Open Source applications on Windows, is that Windows does a lot of things differently than Linux [...]
I was thinking the other day, how long has it been since I’d first been exposed to Open Source software. Of course, the term “Open Source” hasn’t been around that long, but really, the spirit of open source software has existed for a very long time. From a one perspective, all the source code found [...]
