Here’s a little plug for something we’ve been working hard at over at Koders. Everyone knows that if you want to find open source code, you go to http://www.koders.com/ (it recently got a minor new facelift so check it out). That’s my area of responsibility here. However, after many many months of hard work, we released Koders Pro Edition 1.0 this week. I helped a bit with this, but it’s mostly due to the hard work of the rest of the team that this is out there, especially Ben, the product manager for Pro.
Pro Edition is the yin to the...
Have you ever wanted to take a look at the internals of the .NET Framework? Sure you can (and should) fire up Reflector and see the Base Class Libraries, but what about the fully commented source code? What about the parts implemented in C++?
A while back, Microsoft released the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (aka the SSCLI aka Rotor). This is a fully working implementation of the ECMA CLI standard and ECMA C# language specification. So it's not quite the entire framework, but it is still quite a bit of code.
Traditionally, to look at this code you would download the...
As I mentioned before, I am the Product Manager for the Koders.com website. I am responsible for the search engine, the source code index, the forums, the blog and the Content Management System. My counterpart at Koders, Ben McDonald, is responsible for our client editions of the search engine which include the Enterprise Edition and the recently announced Pro Edition, which makes him one very busy fella. He just recently blogged about a private beta we have going on for Pro Edition. The Pro Edition allows you to index and search code on your desktop. As far as I...
First week on the job and I’ve already got the keys to the company blog. I just posted my first post at koders.com announcing the latest set of site updates. One thing that I was surprised to learn this week, though it really shouldn’t surprise me, is that Koders uses an open source search engine to create the full-text index. More specifically, it uses Lucene.NET, a port of the Java Lucene project. I’m familiar with Lucene.NET because the Subtext and RSS Bandit projects both use it for searching (though I was not the one to implement it in either case)....
Today is my last day of work as a VelocIT employee, a company I helped start and had (and still have) high hopes for as employee #1. No, I’m not being fired for blogging too much or embezzling funds. No, there wasn’t a big falling out with partners in the company throwing books at each other and screaming expletives. Unfortunately, nothing dramatic and tabloid-worthy like that happened at all. I simply lost interest in being a consultant and I blame Subtext. Micah Dylan, the CEO and Founder of VelocIT and my good friend, and I often talked about the idea...