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Nick Hodge is a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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WPF Twitter Client. Over.">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 in closed-source Tweet­Deck; or mov­ing through a myriad of AIR based applic­a­tions. Sub­ject­ing myself to unknown security […]

Sanity Prevails

The FOSS com­munity has been con­cerned about the dif­fi­culties, pros and cons of includ­ing Mono-built applic­a­tions as a part of stand­ard Linux builds. Both Pro and Con.
Most recently, the Ubuntu Tech­nical Board pos­ted to their Ubuntu Developer Announce mail­ing list their exterm­ely prag­matic pos­i­tion on Mono applic­a­tions.
Today Microsoft exten­ded the Com­munity Prom­ise to the two […]

Microsoft and Open Source, Unhandled Exceptions. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

Microsoft and Open Source, Unhandled Excep­tions.
Microsoft and Open source? Isn’t that like cats and dogs liv­ing together? Dis­cuss and learn what (where and why) Microsoft is embra­cing Open source. See which Microsoft tech­no­logy can pos­it­ively affect your Open source based pro­jects, and how you can con­trib­ute. We would also like to hear your unfiltered […]

Free Microsoft Software and Online Services

As heard from This Week on Chan­nel 9, here is a list of Free soft­ware and online Ser­vices.
The above list is “free as in beer”
Microsoft, and third party coders, have a whole bunch of cool bits and pieces over on Codeplex.com – which now sup­ports SVN. C’mon git­sup­port
Code­plex pro­jects I follow:

Iron­Py­thon
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
Phalanger

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Slashdot.org is the par­ent of blogs, the voice of open source and a com­munity of inter­est­ing people.
I have been a lurker since 1996. It is rather a sur­prise to open source people when I tell them my ID is less than 100,000.

This is Not Your Father’s Microsoft

A day after the Apache Found­a­tion OSCON announce­ment, Sam Ramji presen­ted to us Microsoft-ees in Seattle.
PHP, ADONET etc. The world is a dif­fer­ent place. All a part of Microsoft real­iz­ing that Open source is not going to go away, and the means of engage­ment is work­ing with the com­munity: not against it.
Phew.
I’ve landed at […]