January 30, 2012
Blog ArchivesAbout Orchard Governance and Microsoft
Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed b…
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NuGet Package of Week #11 – ImageResizer enables clean, clear image resizing in ASP.NET
The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for most…
Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github
We made a recent change to make it easy to update the NuGet documentation . In this post, I’ll cover what the change was, why we made it, and how it makes it easier to contribute to our documentation. Our docs run as a simple ASP.NET Web Pages applic…
NuGet 1.5 Released!
I’m happy to announce the release of NuGet 1.5 just in time to make sure our roadmap isn’t a liar. I won’t bore you by repeating the details of the release, but instead direct you to the NuGet 1.5 release notes . If you are running a private NuGe…
CoffeeScript, Sass and LESS support for Visual Studio and ASP.NET with the Mindscape Web Workbench
There's some really impressive stuff happening in the .NET Community lately. Folks are reaching outside their standard built-in tools and pulling inspiration from everywhere. It's been said that (some) Microsoft developers don't like to use…
NuGet Package of the Week #9 – ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world
I LOVE great debugging tools. Anything that makes it easier for me to make a site correct and fast is glorious. I've talked about Glimpse , an excellent firebug-like debugger for ASP.NET MVC, and I've talked about ELMAH , and amazing logger and…
Hanselminutes Podcast 270 – Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas Håkansson
Scott chats with open source developer Andreas Håkansson about his .NET micro web framework called Nancy which is inspired by a Ruby framework called Sinatra. Why do we need frameworks like this? What kinds of sites and services can they support and h…
An Obsessive Compulsive Guide To Source Code Formatting
Most developers I know are pretty anal about the formatting of their source code. I used to think I was pretty obsessive compulsive about it, but then I joined Microsoft and faced a whole new level of OCD ( Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ). For example,…
Making Let Me Bing That For You Open Source
Almost two years ago, I announced the launch of http://letmebingthatforyou.com/ , a blatant and obvious rip-off of the Let me Google that for you website. The initial site was created by Maarten Balliauw and Juliën Hanssens in response to a call for h…
New NuGet Documentation Site
It’s a common refrain you hear when it comes to documentation for open source projects. It typically sucks! In part, because nobody wants to work on docs. But also in part because good documentation is challenging to write. What is good documentation…
