Los Angeles User Group Meeting
Tonight I attended our local Los Angeles .NET Developers Group meeting for the first time in years. I pretty much never go to these meetings because I just haven’t found them worth dealing with the congestion of rush hour traffic in the UCLA area, which is really bad. Of course I should probably view user group meetings in the same way Jeff Atwood views conferences - I am not there for the talks, I am there to meet you.
Read MoreLog4Net Patch For ConnectionStrings
I submitted my first
patch to
the Log4Net
project today. The patch enables the AdoNetAppender to get its
connection string from the ConnectionStrings
section of a web.config
file. Hopefully it gets accepted and applied.
Log4Net Breaking Change in 1.2.9
I am a little late in reporting this, but I hadn’t realized the problem until I had to maintain an older project that used Log4Net 1.2.8. I upgraded it to log4net 1.2.10 and noticed it stopped working. I then found this comment in the log4net mailing list archives.
Read MoreSee! The Monkeys Are Trying To Take Over. But Luckily There Is Help.
This
story from Boing Boing
just cracks me up. Apparently monkeys have been harassing passengers of
India’s Delhi Metro. This has become such a problem that they have had
to hire some langurs (a fierce looking primate) along with a langur
wrangler to scare away the monkeys. Here is a description of one such
incident.
Blog Upgrade
If you read this blog outside of an aggregator, you might notice a few minor new tweaks. I am dogfooding Subtext 1.9 which runs on ASP.NET 2.0. We are very close to preparing a release, so I figured I would beta test this one on my own blog and see if everything works well.
Read MoreOpen Source Is Free Like A Flower
Jeff “The CodingHorror”
Atwood takes issue
with the
idea
that software developers have any moral obligation to contribute to Open
Source projects. And you know what? I agree. However I do take issue
with his conclusion as well as some of the points that he makes in an
attempt to bolster his argument.
Soccer Statistics Can Be Painful
One thing I
love about my soccer league is that they have a kick butt
website. The
design isn’t much to look at, but the site is chock full of useful
information both current and historical.
HttpModule For Controlling Custom Headers
In a triumphant return after about three months of not blogging, Barry “idunno.org” Dorrans has published an HttpModule for modifying custom HTTP headers in response to a throw away comment by Scott Hanselman in his post on P3P requests.
Read MoreCaptainHook Is On SourceForge
UPDATE: I long ago stopped supporting Captain Hook. This is a dead project.
Read MoreOpen Source Recruiting Is Fundamental
Update Corrected my pop-culture iconography mix up.
Read MoreVelocIT Tools Site
UPDATE: Sorry, but this site appears to be down now. I’ll try to find the tools and upload them elsewhere.
Read MoreScott Adams Solves The Middle East Riddle
This is just too funny not to link to. Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, had an epiphany recently which led him to solve the problems in the Middle East.
Read MoreIntroducing CaptainHook - A Subversion Hook Framework For .NET
UPDATE: CaptainHook is now an Open Source project on SourceForge.
Read MoreHappy Belated Birthday To Us!
The Demise of NDoc and A Challenge For Users Of Open Source Software
My goodness. Today is Open Source News Day for me.
Read MoreSource Available vs Open Source vs Free Software
It is a common notion that there is a lot of ambiguity and disagreement around the term Open Source. While that has been true in the past, I believe that there is much more consensus now because the term has been refined and the taxonomy of software has been improved. Certainly there are still arguments, but I believe for the most part, there is a detente.
Read MoreSubtext 1.5.2 Minor Bugfix Release
The Subtext
team is currently furiously working to prepare the Subtext 1.9
Daedelus release for your blogging enjoyment. Subtext 1.9 will run on
ASP.NET 2.0 in Medium trust and contain a few new goodies, though those
goodies have been kept to a minimum as the goal was to create a straight
port to ASP.NET 2.0. The release date has not been set since my day
job and another minor side project
has been keeping me busy. My hope is to release somewhere around the
first or second week of August.
Is Community Server Open Source?
Dave Burke makes the interesting claim that Community Server is an open source application. Whether this is true or not of course depends on your definition of the term Open Source. Here is Dave’s definition.
Read MoreContent Management For .NET
Anyone have recommendations for Content Management systems for ASP.NET (ideally 2.0) that can handle a lot of traffic and allow for extremely customized site design? I am curious about which products are out there other than DotNetNuke and Microsoft Content Management Server.
Read MorePickup Lines In .NET
Now this is the ultimate in geekery. K. Scott Allen posts pickup lines in .NET.
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