Archive | November, 2009

15 November 2009 ~ 17 Comments

Free Events: The No-Show Problem

This past weekend Roz Duffy, Kelani Nichole, and I hosted our second Barcamp Philadelphia at the University of the Arts. It was, by just about any measure, a success.
One issue we’ve struggled with over the past two years is whether or not to charge an entrance fee. The spirit of barcamp, in one sense, is [...]

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01 November 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Hornget, Why I think it needs binaries

Today I learned about the Hornget project which is lead by Paul Cowan. Hornget attempts to solve the elusive “package manager for .NET” problem by creating a packager system for open source .NET projects.
An interesting choice the Horn project team made was to keep the repository (not the design pattern, the actual place where the [...]

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