In my last post about “The Next Decade of .NET Open Source” I alluded to a future blog post about open source sustainability. This is it.
Some background: in January 2015, fresh off of the very public failure...
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How to Build Sustainable Open Source Software Projects
How to Configure Visual Studio to Use SourceLink to Step into NuGet Package Source
I love SourceLink - it’s fast becoming a standard practice to include SourceLink support in all open source NuGet packages in order to make them easier to debug. We’ve included SourceLink support in Akka.NET and some of our other projects for some time now.
However, I’m embarrassed to...
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The Next Decade of .NET Open Source
Over the past week there’s been a ton of chatter about the state of the .NET ecosystem and, more specifically, as to whether or not its OSS ecosystem is healthy and sustainable over the long term.
I won’t bother with the details, but the substantive criticisms amount to:
- If...
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Problems and Solutions with the .NET Foundation Maturity Ladder
This is largely the text of an issue I posted related to the .NET Foundation’s new proposed Maturity Ladder for .NET OSS projects. I am fully supportive of the .NET Foundation’s stated mission and wrote this in the hopes of trying to help it achieve that through a little...
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It's Just Not a Big Deal
In my professional life, I’ve actively conditioned myself to tolerate and accept risks when necessary. Risk tolerance is something that can be learned and taught. But risk tolerance is fundamentally a contextual matter - two people with identical means and skills can have totally different reactions to the stressors...
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The High Price of Comfort
Chief among the values prized by fellow millennials is comfort. It’s reflected in our more casual dress and our increasing preference for impersonal forms of communication, such as text or Slack. Our desire to form self-reinforcing informational and social bubbles, where we can limit our exposure to different and potentially...
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What We Leave Behind
It was roughly a year ago this week that I fled California in pursuit of greener economic pastures. I came to Texas an economic refugee; despite running a successful business in California for a number of years I watched my profit steadily fall beneath the relentless tide of cost of...
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The Necessity of Systematic Thinking
I spend a lot of my professional time training other software developers on how to build next-generation applications. Distributed and concurrent systems; stream processing; stateful web applications; soft real-time applications; and so forth. Cutting edge stuff for the majority of my industry.
One of the huge advantages of inexperience, such...
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The Coming .NET Renaissance
There’s been ample grumbling about various changes in the .NET ecosystem of late, but I’m more excited about .NET than ever.
First, the decoupling of .NET from Windows. Mono started this work in earnest 15 years ago, and .NET Core + UWP is the next step. Turning .NET into...
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.NET Core is Probably Fine
So, BUILD 2017 has come and gone and lots of new exciting updates have been announced or made available for preview in .NET-land, most notably the preview release of .NET Core 2.0.
TL;DR; 2022
However, the issue that grabbed the attention of many of the developers in the...