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Looking for advice on open source licenses

I’ve been developing (and operating) CSFBL, my multiplayer, web-based baseball game, for over eight years. After mulling for quite some time as to the future of the game, I’m seriously considering the transition of the game to an open source project. That being said, finding the right open source license is important.
After doing my reading, [...]

Posted 05 February 2009 § Technology ‡ Comments (5)

Announcing the ASP.Net Control Adapters, a new open source project

Over the past few weeks, I started doing some experimentation with a different approach to changing the rendering of default ASP.Net controls. For a few years, I (and many others) have used the CSSFriendly project for this. That project does some nice things, but has many shortcomings.
I hemmed and hawed about this a bit (see [...]

Posted 04 October 2008 § Personal ‡ Comments (3)

A free replacement for the Windows defragment utility

Defragmenting hard drives is something that is often unnecessary, but when it is necessary, most people run the built-in Windows “Disk Defragmenter” utility. It’s serviceable, but there is a better option: JkDefrag.
There’s a few things that make JkDefrag an improvement over what Windows offers:

It runs on anything that mounts like a disk drive — including [...]

Posted 21 July 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (1)

Free file archiving and (de)compression with 7-Zip [with expensive minimum donations]

In thinking about all the free and open source tools I use, one seems to run underneath the radar: 7-Zip.
7-Zip will compress, expand, encode, and decode more formats than you can shake a stick at. It integrates seamlessly with Windows Explorer, so you just right-click and choose the option you want, as shown below.

[That [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

Castle now accepting donations (and getting one from me)

Castle Project is a wonderful thing. I still don’t understand a lot of it, but it’s darn impressive, and has become my library of choice. It’s also no coincidence that my long-sought departure from ASP.Net WebForms was timed with my discovery of Castle MonoRail.
Hammett (the man behind Castle) has finally started accepting donations for his [...]

Posted 30 April 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)