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Archive for 2007/10


Microsoft Public License goes open source.

Recently the Microsoft Permissive License, along with the Microsoft Community License were both submitted to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to allow them to be fully supported as ‘Open Source’ licenses however these were both turned down for approval, mainly due to the fact that the names of licenses were misleading.
On the 12th October, [...]

Mix 07 UK Videos

Last week sometime the videos of *most* of the sessions at Mix 07 UK went online. Which you can go and view over at the Mix site. Out of the sessions that I missed whilst I was down at the conference, one which has caught my eye was Michael Foord’s session called IronPython et al: [...]

Barclaycard ePDQ (MPI) with PHP (Online payments)

For the last two or so weeks I have been working on donation section for a client at work. What they needed was a way to take online payments/donations through a Barclaycard merchant account. The MPI ePDQ is a way of seemlessly using the Barclays system without re-directing a user to their site at all. [...]

MVC framework update

Scott just recently updated his blog to go briefly over a few more details on the MVC framework so it's worth checking out here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx
Chris

MVC framework in ASP.NET

During the Alt.Net conference in Austin, TX, Scott Guthrie announced publicly that Microsoft were working on a MVC framework for ASP.NET. A video of this presentation can be found over on Scott Hanselman's blog here but don't be put off by the swaying camera too much, it's definitely worth it. A few things which [...]

Mix 07 UK

A few weeks I attended Mix O7 - the UK version of the Las Vegas event back in April. The first evening I was there, the day before the event, I met a few new people with Phil and headed to a Thai restaurant which I cannot remember the name of. It was very well [...]

Hello New Website

I've just moved onto a "new" server and got wordpress installed... More to come later.