So Microsoft Deleted Some of Our Packages From NuGet.org Without Notice
“Software supply chain management” is one of those terms that sounds like Venture Capital-funded vendor marketing bullshit right up until it isn’t.
Posts tagged "OSS"
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.NET OSS Projects: Better to Re-license or Die?
This week FluentAssertions, a popular open source library designed to make it easier to write assertions during unit testing, changed its license from Apache 2.0 to some commercial terms under the ...
.NET Developers Begging for Ecosystem Destruction
An ASP.NET GitHub thread entitled “Epic: Eventing Framework in .NET 9” ignited an inferno of criticism for the usual reasons: Microsoft big-footing its own .NET OSS ecosystem, etc, etc…
We're Rewriting Sdkbin
In light of the recent drama with the Moq project’s decision to try to solicit donations through the use of SponsorLink, I’ve decided to share some updates on Sdkbin - our NuGet marketplace for .NE...
Professional Open Source: Extend-Only Design
This post marks the third one I’ve written this year about versioning problems in open source software development, although they apply to anyone who develops shared software components:
The Future of the .NET Foundation and .NET OSS
.NET Open Source: What Happens When the Free Lunch Ends?
It’s a Thursday, which means: .NET open source drama.
Practical vs. Strict Semantic Versioning
In my last post I went into detail on maintaining API, binary, and wire compatibility for open source projects and why that’s a nececssary ingredient for building professional-grade open source, th...
Professional Open Source: Maintaining API, Binary, and Wire Compatibility
We’re in the process of defining some community standards for Akka.NET, part of which is expanding and modernizing our contributor guidelines to help users answer the question “how do I know if my ...
Sdkbin February 2021 Update: Revenue, Results, and Roadmap
We launched Sdkbin, our NuGet meets App Store marketplace for .NET developers on September 30th 2020, but with an important limitation: that Petabridge would be the only publisher on the marketplac...
How to Play Software as a Team Sport
I’ve written before about how to start contributing to OSS and I wrote for the Petabridge blog about “How to Use Github Professionally” - both of those posts were aimed at helping developers who ha...
Introducing Sdkbin - The Marketplace for Software Developers
The New Rules for Playing in Microsoft's Open Source Sandbox
Here we go again. “The Day AppGet Died” - the short version: OSS developer fills a hole in the Windows ecosystem, Microsoft offers him a job to work on this kind of product inside the company, ghos...
How to Build Sustainable Open Source Software Projects
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.
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.
Broken Windows: How Bad Software Releases Happen to Good Teams
One of my primary responsibilities with the Akka.NET project is release manager - I put together the release notes, press the big green button when we’re ready to deploy, and make sure that each co...
Akka.NET Request for Contributors: Akka.Cluster
Helios 2.0 Development Diary 2 - Channels, Config, and the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern
Picking up where I left off in the previous Helios 2.0 diary entry… After clearing the decks of all of any code I wasn’t 100% certain we’d be keeping, I began writing new code.
Helios 2.0 Development Diary 1 - Clean Slate
To my eternal shame, I’ve never blogged about one of the most important open source projects I’m involved in: Helios. Helios is for all intents and purposes a .NET port of Java’s wildly successful ...
How to Start Contributing to Open Source Software
The Petabridge team (all two of us) just wrapped up a big two weeks. We launched Akka.NET V1.0 and then traveled to Portland to talk about .NET open source software at .NET Fringe.
Akka.NET - One Year Later
My Next Thing: Petabridge - the Future of Distributed Software in .NET
After wrapping up MarkedUp, I took some time off to consider my future. Travel. See old friends. Catch up on rest. During the entire time I was gone I received a steady stream of questions and inq...
In Response to a Letter from a Beginning Programmer
I received a heartfelt response from a new software developer in response to my “What Do You Need to Become an Elite Developer?” blog post. With his permission, I decided to post his le...
Tradeoffs in High Performance Software
I’ve spent down the past week tracking down an absolutely brutal bug inside Akka.NET. Sometimes the CPU utilization of the system will randomly jump from 10% to 100% and stay pegged like that...
The Profound Weakness of the .NET OSS Ecosystem
I’m in the process of writing up a lengthy set of blog posts for MarkedUp about the work that went into developing MarkedUp In-app Marketing, our real-time marketing automation and messaging ...
Instant File Server: turn any directory into a webserver with a simple command
Our engineering team has been neck-deep in configuration hell lately. Editing 2000-line Solr configuration files, trying to get Apache Oozie integrated into DataStax Enterprise, Cassandra 1.2 upgra...
New Open Source Project: MVC.Utilities
I announced this on Twitter late last week, but I open-sourced a number of common helpers and service interfaces that I use throughout all of my production ASP.NET MVC applications and wrapped it i...
How to Make it Easy for New Developers to Adopt Your Open Source Project
James Gregory is one of my heroes in the .NET community – he’s the creator of Fluent NHibernate, my favorite new ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) for my ASP.NET MVC projects. James expres...