One of my biggest gripes with CodePlex has always been that it uses Team Foundation Server as its source code management technology. And if you have any questions about my stance on TFS as a SCM system, just consult Twitter. But thanks to a lot of hard work by Ayende - and the other contributors - I, and anyone else who prefers a low-friction SCM, have a workaround: SvnBridge. You’re selling me a bridge? SvnBridge is a tiny, lightweight application than runs on your local machine, acting as a proxy and translator between your local...

I recently attended CodeMash, the biggest-little-conference around, and had a great time. While the sessions and content at the conference are first class, they aren’t what bring people back. Its the conference attendees, the hallway conversations, and the vibe that bring folks back and make the conference what it is. As a matter of fact, I only made it to a hand full of the sessions this year. Why? Because the rest of the time I was caught up in Open Spaces talks and adhoc conversations with wicked-smart guys like Dustin Campbell, Keith Elder, Bill Wagner,...

I don't know how I missed this for so long... but I just realized that the CSS Adapters are now a community product. As best I can tell, Microsoft decided to hand control of the Adapters project over to the OSS community and it is now being hosted at CodePlex. Actually... I do know how and why I didn't catch onto this until now - Microsoft's asp.net site make no mention of the fact that the product has now been handed off to the open source community. (Or, at least it didn't as of the time of this writing.)...