Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’

Much Thanks to Tom Wright, who updated my original thesaurus command with a preview pane!

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Woohoo! Open Source at work! much thanks to Tom Wright, who sent me an email with an update to the Thesaurus Ubiquity Command. Not sure how to do multiple contributors, or I’d add him.

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OhLoh.net - Online Smorgasboard of Open Source Projects

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ohloh.net is a directory of Open Source Projects.

“Learn what people are using and contributing to. See what’s going on inside an open source project. Follow what your friends are coding”

It’s essentially a social network for Open Source programmers. Check out my profile.

Arguably the most interesting part of the site is their project and language comparison graphs. It really helps you see which projects are gaining ground, and which are starting to die off. When you compare Subversion, Git, and CVS you based upon contributors you see a huge upswing in the people developing for Git, while Subversion is still growing and CVS is dropping developers like flies. (more…)

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