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by Sam Ramji on November 09, 2007 06:59pm Sam recently interviewed Daniel Lopez, Founder and CTO and Erica Brescia, CEO of Bitrock from their Spain headquarters. Daniel and Erica discuss their experiences and challenges developing open source applications and launching the BitNami project. BitRock...

by Sam Ramji on October 25, 2007 09:14pm It's taken awhile, but without further delay - we're excited to post Sam's discussion with Allison Randal that took place at this year's OSCON event in Portland, OR. Allison discusses the importance of participation in the open source community and her perspective...

by Sam Ramji on September 26, 2007 09:35pm While at OSCON this year Sam and I got the chance to spend some time with Simon Peyton Jones , researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England and Honorary Professor of the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University . Earlier in the week Simon...

by Sam Ramji on May 31, 2007 05:36pm I got the chance to meet many extremely smart developers last month at SambaXP , the annual Samba developer conference. After attending I’m convinced that the Samba team knows more about how Windows networking works than most Microsoft developers. One...

by MichaelF on April 30, 2007 05:05pm As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight. In this video Sam sits down with John Lam, who we interviewed during the LANG.NET Symposium in...

by MichaelF on April 30, 2007 04:45pm Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic...

by MichaelF on April 13, 2007 09:21pm In this interview Sam sits down with a veteran of the gaming industry, Star Trek Deck Plan Expert and Development Manager for the XNA Community Game Platform : Frank Savage. Sam and Frank discuss his background and how he ended up at Microsoft as well as the...

by anandeep on April 03, 2007 06:49pm Michael Koziarski (a.k.a) Koz is one of the core group of about 12 people who holds the keys to the code repository for the Rails framework (also known as Ruby on Rails). They’re all listed on the Rails core page with name and mug-shot. (I checked, a guy...

by anandeep on March 30, 2007 09:32pm Samir Chopra is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Doctorate in Philosophy and is interested in the intersection of politics...

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by hjanssen on February 28, 2007 06:06pm When I started working at Microsoft in May of 2006 I wanted to chronicle my adventures here. So my first blog was posted on June 7th 2006 Titled What is a guy like me doing in a place like this , I had every intention writing frequently about my experiences...

by MichaelF on February 08, 2007 11:00pm We get quite a few requests to provide more information about Powershell so Hank and I decided to go straight to the person who just finished writing the book on Powershell: Powershell in Action , Bruce Payette. Bruce was one of the founders of the Powershell...

by MichaelF on February 02, 2007 06:36pm Following up on our post yesterday here is an interview Sam did with ASP.NET Technical Evangelist: Steve Marx. Steve discusses the three components of ASP.NET AJAX and shows us a demo of the software formerly known as ATLAS running on top of PHP on Linux...

by MichaelF on January 29, 2007 04:15pm In December, Jamie posted a call for questions in the spirit of Festivus one of our favorite secular non-mainstream holidays (aye, we be talkin like pirates on September 19th too matey). Here is the result, or at least the first part of it. We didn...

by hjanssen on January 25, 2007 11:50am Whether deploying Windows in a Linux or UNIX environment, or vice versa, identity management can be a challenge. In order to explore this topic, Hank spent some time talking with Dustin Puryear author, consultant, featured speaker at TechX World and owner of...

by Bryan Kirschner on December 15, 2006 01:46pm Web 2.0 . Enterprise 2.0 . Open Source 2.0 . All the latest expectations for major revs of a good chunk of the information technology world seem to be heavily based on excitement about the possibilities for new forms of social networking and collaboration...

by MichaelF on December 05, 2006 06:36pm Today Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 (WUDSS). Built for mixed environments this solution is highly interoperable, without loss of performance in both NFS and CIFS environments. Remote administration is also...

by MichaelF on November 30, 2006 01:31pm Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for the .NET Framework, sits down with Sam to discuss all things AJAX including: the Open AJAX Alliance, Atlas, the Microsoft AJAX Library and cross browser compatability. Brad also does a quick demo near the end of the video...

by MichaelF on November 14, 2006 10:13am Today at IT Forum in Barcelona Microsoft announced the release of Powershell a command line shell and scripting language intended to simplify administration and automation for system administration. A couple of weeks ago Jeffrey Snover, Powershell Architect...

by MichaelF on November 13, 2006 10:39am While we were in San Jose for Zendcon we had the opportunity to spend some time with Jacob Taylor, CTO of Sugar CRM. As you may remember, Microsoft and Sugar announced a technical collaboration in February focused on improving the experience of deploying and...

by Bryan Kirschner on November 07, 2006 06:51pm I know I’m running a risk of losing focus on the thread I started on analogy and metaphor, but there’ve been too many things popping up in the last couple weeks. In the interest of focus (and maybe good taste) I decided not to follow up There’s...

by Sam Ramji on November 01, 2006 04:15pm I got to spend an hour with Ross Mayfield (founder of Socialtext ) today. We talked about a range of things, from open source calculators ( WikiCalc ) to the future of Sharepoint as a platform for open source development and the shift in Microsoft's approach...

by MichaelF on October 31, 2006 08:31am Today at Zendcon Bill Hilf and Andi Gutmans announced a new technical collaboration aimed at improving the performance of PHP on Windows both for IIS 6 as well as in the future including IIS 7 on Longhorn. The partnership has multiple components including...

by MichaelF on October 26, 2006 05:13pm On September 6, 2006 Microsoft and Cisco announced the details of a technical partnership announced in October of 2004 focused on providing interoperability between the companies' disparate network security technologies: NAC and NAP. In this interview Sam digs...

by jcannon on October 19, 2006 04:40pm Paul Moore sits down with Sam in this podcast, our second go around with Centrify . For those who don't know, Centrify builds software that provides access control and centralized identity management in mixed networks (Yes, this can include Windows, Linux, UNIX...