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They realized being the cartoonish open-source villain wasn't profitable.
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This is an important update to Microsoft’s OWIN implementation, which offers you powerful new functionality. Because... You know I never really could figure out why this exists. To avoid IIS?
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I thought the end goal was so that you could run your .NET web apps stand alone on a Windows box or Mono on a Linux without a web server program?
...researching it is on my todo list...
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Yeah, something like that - to remove IIS as a dependency and make it more like Node/RoR.
DaveX86 wrote: ...researching it is on my todo list...
Ditto, but I'm willing to let my list rot these days.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, it's not high on the to do list 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: make it more like Node/RoR.
Watching a couple of webinars about OWIN/Katana gave me this perception as well. Node has the whole "asynch by default" paradigm going for it (not sure about RoR - never went down that path myself). OWIN/Katana nudges .NET in the "It's a whole lot easier to write asynch server side code" direction. I hesitate to say it rises to level of "asynch by default", though.
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Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its press event for September 30th to detail upcoming changes to Windows as part of a release codenamed "Threshold." The latest guess (on the product that doesn't exist)
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Here are some principles to guide you in building and releasing code that others will care about. Step 1: make code available to everyone. Step 2: done
Yes, that's entirely wrong (humour is sometimes based in exaggeration). Or even, "Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth." Never let it be said I'm not at least a half-wit. Yeah, probably just half.
Their last step in the article is the most important decision in the process though: "Do You Really Want To Lead An Open Source Project?"
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That's only how to start an "open source". To have also "project", step 2 should read
"make sure it builds correctly".
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Cristian Amarie wrote: make sure it builds correctly
I don't believe that's a requirement for open source software. 
/ravi
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Then it's not software, but a bunch of files.
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Unfortunately, some open source code is just that.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Cristian Amarie wrote: make sure it builds correctly
I don't believe hope that's not a requirement for open source my software
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sadly, a useless article for me, as:
A strong, inclusive team of developers and non-developers;
Is the hardest thing to put together, and I was hoping that the article would talk about how to do that!
Marc
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For the first time in a while, this release focuses on adding some significant new features to Knockout. The "not a Microsoft product" continues to improve
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Imagine a typeface that unites all the world’s languages. A publisher could print a book in Arabic, Cherokee, Egyptian Hieroglyphics and more—all without swapping out fonts. One font to control them, etc. etc. etc.
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Is it the Esperanto font?
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I don't see a mono-spaced version suitable for programming.
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Yeah, I noticed that as well. I guess I stick with Consolas for now.
TTFN - Kent
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Is Google trying to replace Unicode, or is the idiot who wrote that confused by the difference between Unicode and fonts that support it?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's more they're building a single font family that actually support all the possible Unicode ranges, to avoid all the 'white boxes' a lot of fonts have for characters.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Google has already taken on an enormous effort, but one way it could attempt to improve cultural sensitivity toward global languages would be to support languages that even Unicode has overlooked. NPR used the example of Nastaʿlīq Urdu, a type of calligraphic script used in famous Urdu poetry. Right now, the only way to share it online is through image files.
So RW is full of elephant droppings then, since that comment in particular is only possible if they're replacing unicode...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: So RW is full of elephant droppings then
Are you shocked? Every tech news site is pretty hit-or-miss with stuff like this.
TTFN - Kent
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Consider it part of my ongoing campaign to convince the powers that be that consistency of quality is more important than consistency of shared articles.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If I only shared 100% factual and 100% accurate posts, you might only get one a week. (Less if you add, "of interest to 100% of the readers")
TTFN - Kent
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