posted on 07/28/06 at 09:15:14 pm by Joel Ross
I'm heading on vacation early tomorrow morning - I'll be in Myrtle Beach for the week, and I'm extremely excited about it. Not just because this is the first real vacation I've taken in two years, but because this is the first time my daughters will step…
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posted on 07/28/06 at 12:07:35 am by Joel Ross
For a long time, I've wanted to be able to have my calendar up to date, no matter what device I'm currently using - my laptop, someone else's computer, my Pocket PC, or my phone. That's been hard to do - but I think I am almost there! I would be there, b…
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posted on 07/27/06 at 10:40:33 pm by Joel Ross
This week, the lead developer on a major open source project, NDoc, resigned. His reasons are valid, if not disappointing (not in him, in the community of NDoc users), but that's not the point. Coming on the heels of this announcement is the announcement…
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posted on 07/27/06 at 10:31:22 pm by Joel Ross
What's the Slashdot crowd going to do now? Everyone's favorite Microsoft Killer (Google) is going after everyone's favorite Microsoft Killer (SourceForge - the home of Open Source Software)! What am I talking about? Google Code - where Google will host y…
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posted on 07/27/06 at 10:09:00 pm by Joel Ross
SSW has a list of 41?rules that they've put out there that can be used as guidelines for running successful projects. I perused the list, and for the most part, they're spot on. One item I hadn't seen was number 5 - about synching up development vs. prod…
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posted on 07/24/06 at 11:00:00 pm by Joel Ross
Kent Newsome has been doing the Web 2.0 Wars for a while now - he's reviewed 200 applications thus far - and he's finally crowned the winner - YouTube. Which is ironicly fitting, considering the recent talks around YouTube's future - no real revenue (yea…
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posted on 07/21/06 at 09:35:24 am by Joel Ross
I'm way late on this, but back in March, a lightbulb went off for me, and I wondered why we couldn't write Javascript in C#. I got a lot of positive feedback about that, and that's pretty much where it ended for me. Until I saw that Nikhil Kothari relea…
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posted on 07/20/06 at 09:56:00 pm by Joel Ross
I was listening to session 12 of BloggerCon IV (Video Blogging) the other day, and someone mentioned the term "Voltroning Up." I don't know who. Maybe Dave can answer that one. Being a child of the '80s, I liked the term. If you're not familiar, Voltron…
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posted on 07/20/06 at 09:28:15 pm by Joel Ross
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were camping in Bay City. On the way home, we decided that we wanted to build a house. That part is still out in the future - we will probably start next fall or the following spring. But, to be in a position to do that, we…
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posted on 07/13/06 at 01:19:02 am by Joel Ross
I'm sure you've probably seen this by now, but if not, Virtual PC is now free. If you're a?developer and you haven't used either Virtual PC or VMWare, you're definitely missing out. The freedom to explore different software environments is worth the cos…
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