Ohloh - Open Source Project Statistics

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While I’m on the topic of code metrics, I thought I would mention another interesting set of statistics provided by the Ohloh web site. This is a site that we use on Subtext to monitor the project and the statistics are integrated with our CruiseControl.NET dashboard as well. Ohloh collects... Read more

NDepend 2.2

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A few months ago, I wrote about Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition and FxCop Integration and also the upcoming Visual Studio Code Metrics that will be available in the Visual Studio “Orcas” release. These are both great tools, but one is really only available if you purchase one of the... Read more

CI Factory Beta 5 (Build 0.8.0.143)

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Beta 5 (build 0.8.0.143) for CI Factory is now available. For a full description of what’s in this release, check out the release notes. The big news for this release is that Vault package is ready for use and that NCover support has been updated to support NCover 1.5.8.... Read more

Microsoft to Acquire aQuantive, Inc.

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Microsoft has just announced (Wall Street Select announcement) that they are acquiring aQuantive for $6 billion, double the price Google paid for DoubleClick earlier this month. This is the largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history, and will allow Microsoft to create the next generation of advertising platforms. When asked... Read more

IronPython Running on Mono

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When Microsoft announced the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) at MIX07, it was an interesting concept. Now, thanks to some very hard work by some of the talented people on the Mono project, it only took 16 days to get Microsoft’s IronPython running with DLR on Mono. This means that IronPython can... Read more