Category Archives: OSS

OSS Rules of Engagement

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

After two posts to a reaction of a comment on feedback I had for the Git installer, I thought it was pertinent to share my thoughts on OSS rules of engagement. Scott Chacon left a comment along the lines of … Continue reading →

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Mac and iOS Development Toolbox

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Scott Densmore

I have been building for the Mac and iOS for the last couple of years and the list of tools I have ben using has been growing (and shrinking).  There is a great development community around the Mac / iOS. … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Can’t Do Math – SilverlightCalculator A New Silverlight OSS Project

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Rod Paddock

It’s amazing what a lack of sleep can do for the OSS World. Over the last year I have encountered numerous places where I wanted to do simple financial equations in my JavaScript applications. You know really complex stuff like … Continue reading →

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Using Solution Factory + NuPack to create Opinionated Visual Studio Solutions.

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Eric Hexter

Using Solution Factory inside of NuPack opens up a great new world of creating Solution Level templates. Previously, I wrote a lot of code in Solution Factory that just kept running into edge cases working against the Visual Studio automation … Continue reading →

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NuPack– .Net Package Management… and much, much, more

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Eric Hexter

Yeah.. so all the Ruby and Java guys are saying.. Its about time .Net got a package management system. There were a few growing in the open source space, but none have really gained any traction.  Nu seemed to be … Continue reading →

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MSDN License Giveaways for Open Source Projects

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Eric Hexter

I am totally excited to support the folks over at Devlicio.us and their giveaway.  They are giving away MSDN  Licenses to Open Source projects in need of said licenses.  As a Microsoft MVP, I was given three MSDN License’s to … Continue reading →

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MvcContrib – Portable Area – Visual Studio project template

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Eric Hexter

I just uploaded a visual studio project template for creating portable areas.  You can find the release here: http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/releases/view/43162 This project template includes a little msbuild trick to automatically include all of your content files as embedded resources, so you … Continue reading →

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A Call for Help – Vote for my Codeplex Issues

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Eric Hexter

This is my second time of calling to the community to support some feature requests I have made for the CodePlex website.   The first time I did this, I got a great response. The community voted my issue up and … Continue reading →

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ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas via MvcContrib

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Eric Hexter

This is a multi post series on ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Sample Portable Area Part 3 – Usage of a Portable Area Part 4 – IoC framework support   What is a Portable … Continue reading →

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Breaking changes in Ncover 3.0 integration with Cruise Control .Net

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Eric Hexter

  There were some changes to the nCover xml reports for code coverage which will break your existing integration with cruise control .net. Specifically if you use the Statistics feature of Cruise Control which is one of the best features … Continue reading →

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