I finally had time tonight to scrape through Jeff Atwoods spreadsheet o’ candidates for his Open Source .Net grant.
ScrewTurn Wiki got the $5k (+ $5k more matched by Microsoft),was a great choice... it is the only wiki I have ever considered putting into production. There were some awesome projects in the list (even nProf, but it’s dead now, 404 and all), quite a few new ones I’d never heard of...
I’ve played with most of these before, just laying down single list of them on my site:
nHibernate - ORM framework that’s been around forever
NProfiler
Paint.NET
Prof-It for C#
RSS Bandit
MEDIAPORTAL - Haven’t played with this one at all, but it looks promising
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Cynical Spolsky - Why Mesh Might WorkFrom: edsid.com
Post Date: 2008-05-01 08:53:49
Joel Spolsky has written a rather bitter post about Microsoft’s Mesh architecture [Architecture Astronauts take over], and why it is bound for failure.
My 2 recent posts are on topic:
1. In Ideas Are Cheap Right Now, I center on the fact that new social network apps are a dime a dozen. MySpace has given the regular everyday lay-user an entry point into the social networking world. In the last few years, I have signed up for, played with, and forgotten about far more networks than I ...
more Ideas are cheap right now...From: edsid.com
Post Date: 2008-04-23 09:55:43
Random thought of the day...
Startups and mashups are all over the web, and there is no end in sight to the new ideas and social networks that are popping up. It’s very cool, but it’s also overwhelming at how thin we are getting stretched. For every new API-exposed web-app, there is another whole set of possible mashups... the possibilities grow almost factorially! For the number of unique api-featured apps a, plus existing mashups m, the potential sum of mashups is m factor...
more ... design tweaks ...From: edsid.com
Post Date: 2008-04-16 21:57:31
Just some updates to make it sharper... lost the #88Fish baby blue, got this sharp #008ish blue thing going on with links, it is a step in the right direction, I like it...
Doug Kinney #4: We’re gonna eat a dolphin!
Doug Kinney #2: We’re going to pet a dolphin...
[multiplicity quotes]...
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