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Rotor Community Resources

If you’re wondering where to get started with the Shared Source CLI, whether you want to get caught up with what’s been going on, or if you want to get plugged in, check out Joel Pobar’s excellent list of Rotor … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday to the Compact Framework

Jono’s Blog: “One year ago today, in New Orleans, Bill Gates officially launched the .NET Compact Framework.”

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Sam Gentile’s CLR Talk

Sam’s giving a CLR talk at the NH .NET User’s Group and is promising plenty of Rotor and no VS.NET. Raw, naked, CLR.

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Morning Notes from Mono Developer Meeting Day One

I’ve posted some notes from the The First Mono Developer Meet over at my O’Reilly Network weblog.

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Microsoft’s Mobile Plan

Russell Beattie: “Already here in the U.S. I can get a Microsoft device from every major carrier. That’s pretty good penetration for a company that’s supposed to be an also-ran in the mobile market.”

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Some Implications of Software Commodification

David Stutz: “Demand for simple, standardized, formats will overcome the advantages that once clearly favored Microsoft technology. Historically, the appearance of multiple sources for a commodity, multiple methods of production, and multiple markets, almost completely eliminates the power of the … Continue reading

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C# Development in XCode with Mono

There’s an interesting thread going on about packaging Mono for Mac OS X. This post by Andy Satori has some tasty tidbits: With XCode, I currently have a C# language filter defined so that XCode can parse the functions and … Continue reading

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Adding Ref-Counting to Rotor

Chris Sells: “implementing my cockamamie ideas in Rotor”

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UML Shapes that Don’t Get in Your Face

Ingo Rammer points out some UML shapes for Visio that don’t get in your face about how they think things should be done–you can just draw and type.

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UML and Patterns for Web Database Design

(making something from a while back a little easier to find): Web applications are complex entities with many interconnections that are not obvious. Often, these interconnections are added in an ad hoc fashion, and are poorly planned and never documented. … Continue reading

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