Pick of the week: How to Contribute to Open Source Without Writing a Single Line of Code
General
- Microsoft Creates the CodePlex Foundation: Scott Hanselman announces the CodePlex Foundation, a non-profit organization created to help commercial software developers use Open Source software.
- What the CodePlex Foundation Means to the .NET OSS Developer: Phil Haack shares his thoughts on how the CodePlex Foundation will be able to benefit .NET open source developers. He continues his thoughts in a follow-up post.
- First Step In Troubleshooting Complex Issues - Define and Scope Your Issue Properly: Tess Ferrandez explains why the very first thing you should do when troubleshooting is to define exactly what the problem is. She also has good suggestions on how to zoom in on the issue.
- SharpDevelop Now Creates Projects as 32-bit By Default: Daniel of the SharpDevelop team announces a seemingly backtracking change in SharpDevelop and has a good explanation of why it's actually a good idea.
- A Fix We Really Need In MEF for .NET 4.0: Nothing is more frustrating than encountering an issue in the core .NET framework that you are unable to fix, extend, or workaround. Kathleen Dollard needs our help to get one of those fixes into .NET 4.0 before it gets locked down.
- Your Unit Test May Smell If.: Derik Whittaker highlights one particular indication that your tests might be getting smelly.
Web Development
- Looking to the Future with Cassandra: Ian of Digg.com writes about their experience pushing a NOSQL solution - Cassandra - into production. Want even more details? His co-worker Arin Sarkissian has a follow-up post with more in-depth details about Cassandra.
- Building Scalable Databases - Denormalization, the NoSQL Movement and Digg: Dare Obasanjo responds to the Digg's post about using Cassandra by explaining at a high level what the NoSQL stuff is all about.
- Shrinkr - URL Shrinking Service Developed with Entity Framework 4.0, Unity, ASP.NET MVC, and jQuery: Kazi Manzure Rashid is using the very latest tools to build a URL shortening service. Based on this first installment it looks like it'll be a great reference! Also check out part 2 of the project.
- RSSCloud vs. PubSubHubbub - Why the Fat Pings Win: Josh Fraser explains the differences between the two technologies behind the emerging real-time web movement. Even though he is a contributor to PubSubHubbub, his arguments are pretty unbiased.
- Get and Set Querystring Values in JavaScript: It's one of those things that really should be native but isn't. Rick Strahl shows us how to do it.
- Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Refcard: Keyvan Nayyeri announces the availability of a nice little reference document for ASP.NET MVC written by himself and Simone Chiaretta.
- ASP.NET MVC - Using RESTful Architecture: Srinu Tamada explains what RESTful architectures are and how you can build them using ASP.NET MVC.
- The Technology Behind Tornado, FriendFeed's Web Server: Bret Taylor writes about the background of Tornado, FriendFeed's recently open sourced web server.
