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My history on the net :) My oldest news post I was able to find was from on November 4th, 1994 - more then 12 years ago. Niiiicceee.... 1MB SIMMS

Freeware and OpenSource Pt.2

A pretty large chunk number of applications are use daily are opensource applications. A list I'll try to keep up to date is here.

Being an active user of opensource software, being a not-so-active contributor so open source projects (I've submitted a few patches to some projects), and even having a project on SourceForge, I've been putting a little bit of thought into what starts and keeps OpenSource software going.

There a few reasons that I can think of:

• Brand new software with no real commercial alternative, designed to be used by itself - There a lot of applications like this. I think most of these are smaller projects, utility applications, etc... - WinDirStat, SysInternal utilities, etc...
• Applications created to support commercial products - NUnit, NDoc
• Free, Open Source alternatives to commercial applications - NSIS, Subversion, QuickFix
• Commercial Products released under Open Source - OpenOffice

The reasons above can be split into two categories: Projects that have commercial backing and products that don't. So the question I'd like to raise is how long will projects without commercial backing survive, and what will be the reason for survivor or their demise. Will they survive when corporations will put their resources to create commercial product against a free alternative. I've noticed the same questions asked by others to the project coordinators as well.
NUnit - "The Death of NUnit Revisited"
NDoc - "NDoc 2 is Officially Dead"
Considering how fierce is the competition between comercial products, will the OpenSource projects that are developed by some great developers during their spair time using their own resources, be able to stand up to the competition? Or will the projects live only as long as they are not good enough to be considered a competition by the coorporations, and die as soon as they become a threat (or atleast a competition)?

Freeware and OpenSource Pt.1

There are a couple of entries that I have to write on the Freeware and more importantly OpenSource project. I'll start with a few opensource products that I use on regular basis

1. NDoc
2. Nant
3. NUnit
4. WinDirStat
5. CygWin
6. QuickFix
7. Subversion
8. Tourtoise SVN
9. log4net
10. Emacs / XEmacs
11. Console

Microsoft: .Net Beat Java, Who's Next?

It is very exciting to hear that Microsoft considers .Java a beat. I would like to see some stats that would back that up though. Microsoft: .Net Beat Java, Who's Next? On a related note, it is very interesting how the focus shift for Microsoft technology will effect us. This relates to everything from Microsoft focusing a lot of its attention on consumer products (XBox 360, Zune, etc...) and Microsoft possible focusing on enterprise product development while considering the .NET Framework to be a great base to build on. I guess we will see soon

Learning something new

It is great when you learn something new, especially when its a little information that makes a huge difefrence. I used to have a multiple number of addins to provide the basic right click functionality, however, in VS 2005, it is available out of the box. Right Clicking on the file tab now provides you following options Close All Close All But This Copy Full Path Open Containing Folder Copy File Locaton in Solution Explorer -- jfo's coding : TIP: Try right clicking on the filetabs in VS 2005

MSDN Library available for free download

Microsoft made a shift in distribution of its MSDN Library. It is now available for free download from MSDN Library Download Previously, MSDN was available for download only for MSDN Subscribers, and there was actually a subscription level that provided only MSDN library.

Working in Solitude

EmptyCube

There are a lot of changes happening in the office. After business reorg, there is the chair reorg. All of my old team was moved to a different floor, all 15 of them. So until I get moved too (hopefully in the next two weeks) I'll be working in solitude.

The picture is of the cubicle next to mine. It sure is quiet here :)

Comments are added

Finally activated comments on the posts. Let's see if anyone is reading :)

SysInternals is bought by Microsoft

Sysinternals was aquired by Microsoft. Does tat mean that Process Explorer will finally replace Task Manager? For now, Sysinternals site is so slow (probably with everyone readin the news, I can't even login to retreive the blog entry :) Read it on CNet for now

Ethereal Is Renamed to WireShark

Ethereal - Now WireShark is a great tool that I've been using for a while to look at the network traffic and troubleshot all kinds of issues. Everything from remoting to FIX, to just browse through the traffic that is going on on the network port. The new homepage is at www.wireshark.org

Toolset

This is a list of the utility software that I have running on my development desktop

Windows Utilities
Toolset from SysInternals	A requirement for system management. Process Explorer, Event Viewer, File Monitor, Registry Monitor, etc...
UltraEdit	Trully great programmers text editor
Notepad++	Another great text editor - OpenSource and Free
FireFox	Sometimes I feel like IE, some times I don't
WinMerge	Great file/folder compare tool
SlickRun	A nice, small, and very usefull Quick Run utility
Console	Command Prompt Enhancer
TaskSwitch Pro	Free ALT+TAB Replacement
PowerToys for XP	PowerCalc, Tweak UI, etc...
CygWin toolset	Unix utlities (includng XWindows) on windows
FolderShare	Syncronize and access your files across the internet
WinDirStat	Drive / Folder usage statistics with a nice graphical view of the used space
Windows Live Writer	Blogging utility that from Microsoft. Quickly becoming my favorite
VMWare server	Virtual Server software for VMWare
Daemon Tools	Open any ISO file as a virtual CD drive
PureText	A small utility that removes markup from clioboard text. The result is the same as pasting into notepad
Development Utilities
Reflector	.NET assembly viewer
PowerShell	.NET Command Line Processor
NAnt	Build Script Processor
NUnit	Unit Test Framework
NDoc	Help file generator
NSIS	Nullsoft Scriptable Installation System
MSBuild Community Tasks	A colleection of MSBuild tasks. Many of them are so great and usefull, that should have been in included with MSBuild from the begining
Snippet Compiler	Compile and run .NET Code snippets
CoolCommands VS Addin	Add lots and lots of cool commands to the Visual Studio menus
Subversion	Because it is a real surce control that happens to be free
TourtoiseSVN	Because it makes my source control work in windows, the way every source control should
SQLPrompt	Intellisence for SQL Editor. This really should be a part of the microsoft SQL tools
mtail	Free graphical tail utility
LogParser	Command line tool that lets you run SQL queries against a variety of log files and other system data sources

David Ilan Fanshteyn

A wonderfull, tiny, new addition to my family. My second son was born this Thursday, June 29th, 2006 at 6:50 AM. Here's a little pic where he's only a few minutes old.