dashCommerce

It’s been almost a year since the last dashCommerce State of the Union address, so I guess it is time to evaluate where we are, what’s happened over the last year, and get a feel for what could happen in the future. We just pushed the dashCommerce 3.2...

For the next rev of dashCommerce, we are going to be using NHibernate and so I have been exploring ways to both: 1.) get up to speed with NHibernate and 2.) the fastest way to get started working with NHibernate. I had seen all of the articles on Fluent...

In my last post, I profiled what you would need to do to get Visual Studio to use the Mono compiler for compiling your Mono projects. I also created 3 basic Mono project templates that are available for download. Apparently, they have some appeal as they...

As it stands, Visual Studio does not allow you to explicitly target a framework other than the .NET framework. I cover that in this post, so if you are curious about that, then you may want to go read that first to understand where this post is coming...

Open source in the Microsoft ecosystem is a new thing, and to be frank, it’s only gaining ground in some areas of Microsoft. We’ve all heard the news reports of Steve Ballmer saying Open Source is Microsoft’s primary threat, among other things. I’m not...

In my planning to get ready for Mono development, I’ve been looking at different ways to get up and running. I’ll be putting together a screen cast of this work, all distilled down so hopefully you will be able to avoid some of the pain, musings, and...

I’ve never met Miguel de Icaza, but I found this interview and it is quite possibly the most intelligent interview I have listened to in the last few years. He’s an extremely “balanced” individual, fair and accurate. I like that. No, I don’t like it,...

In an nutshell the plan is to do 1 or 2 releases that tighten up the existing code base in 2009. We won’t do too many drastic things as there doesn’t appear to be a need based on the community feedback. There are some things here and there, but overall...

Here you go.   Considering they just released 2.2 not too long ago, and judging by the commit rate, they seem to be moving along quite well.   Now if only I can get into the mix a bit . . .       

I’ve been digging into Mono a bit. The thing that is taking most of my time right now is looking at the libraries I would like to use for dashCommerce v.Next to see if they might work on Mono, using the Mono Migration Analyzer. So far, things are looking...

Yep, that’s all it took. Installed as a VM. openSUSE is very nice so far.       

I’ve been in mad scientist mode for a few months now and especially over the last few weeks, feeding off of every interesting thing I could find / read. It’s the binge. You know it. You know how it usually ends up – a million ideas, too much to do, and...

MEF is the Managed Extensibility Framework, which is a project out on CodePlex. The aim of the project is to allow greater reuse of applications and components. Microsoft has said that they will be using it in the next rev of Visual Studio – so there...

My friend Corey Haines recently embarked on an interesting experience. He has spent the last three weeks traveling around the central midwest pair programming with people that would put him up for a few days. I’ve been watching the videos and the twitter...

For those of you out there looking to free yourself from The Cubicle Nation, you should definitely check out the Microsoft BizSpark program. This is an enormous package for basement startups and I wish, oh do I wish, something like this would have been...