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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 issues, slow per­form­ance – and no abil­ity to con­trib­ute – has frus­trated me no end.

Then @aeoth cre­ate MahT­weets. It’s MS-PL. It’s extens­ible (via MEF). It has Iron­Ruby for script­able extensibility.

It is awesome.

Use it. Con­trib­ute. Let’s make the world’s best WPF Twit­ter Cli­ent.

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 under­ly­ing ECMA (and sub­sequent ISO) stand­ards that cover the CLI and C#. These prom­ises had already covered other EMCA stand­ards such as OpenXML, so it was quite logical that the CLI and C# would fol­low. Well, in a sane uni­verse anyway.

As the Mono pro­ject (and Moon­light) are based on these stand­ards, the Com­munity Prom­ise would logic­ally extend to these envir­on­ments.

Hope­fully now we can all just build cool soft­ware, not argue about licenses, pat­ents and other dis­trac­tions. Now let’s fix Outlook’s HTML ren­der­ing!.

(Thanks to John Bou­An­toun for the ori­ginal link, Peter Galli for the ori­ginal blog post, and Microsoft for doing the right thing.)

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 feed­back on how we should con­trib­ute, too. Come along, bring your col­leagues, have some light refresh­ments and enjoy a relaxed conversation.

At the recent WebDU con­fer­ence, Jorke and I sat down with two groups of attendees to hear warts-and-all, on the ground stor­ies. Simple ques­tions and deep answers provided an insight that a Power­Point (or Key­note) present­a­tion gives. Listen­ing hurts, hard.

Extend­ing this into open source even­ings seems like a good way to go. No need to shill open source.

Register an pop along. Vent at us in more than 140 char­ac­ters. See you there.

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

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.

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 Microsoft at the cor­rect time.