Assembla is no longer free

and it sucks! I got quite a few emails regarding my previous posts about how great Assembla was. Assembla is no longer hosting private projects for free. I you want free, it must be open source, and that’s not what I need so I started quite a quest for a new svn hosting site.

Obviously, I’m not the only one flying away from Assembla. Take a look at this post at stackovwerflow.com. None of the suggested sites were good to me, cause they offered 1 free private project (and I need more). Devjavu.com sounds good but they restricted their free private hosting to invitation-only (they say is temporary), so created an account at xp-dev.com, it is just svn hosting, they don’t wiki or other services and the site look & feel is pretty crappy, but it does what I need it to do, and for free.

But wait! as I was writing this post and going over the stackoverflow thread I discovered Origo, and I stuck with it. It’s 100% free for private projects, has issue tracking, wiki, and more.

Give it a try!

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Easy Remover also goes open source

 

Following Milano’s BuildConsole my “Easy Remover” is also going open source, as I did before with Goomez. Now in a Google Code hosted project since I wanted to try it out. I think I’ll move Goomez there too.

For those of you who don’t know Easy Remover and don’t understand spanish (the original post was in spanish), Easy Remover is my alternative to the “Add/Remove Programs” feature in Windows. I always thought the loading was way too slow, had some missing features, and found no use for some of the info displayed there, like the size of the program and how often I use it, I already know that thank you.

Easy Remover loads much faster than the standard/official feature, and lets you search in your installed programs refining the showed programs to the word (or pieces of it) you are looking for.

In the original post, Gusbro posted a link to a blog where it was explained how Windows collects the info to show in the standard form, which explains why it is so slow to load. (here’s the link)

But as mentioned before, I just wanted to let everyone know that Easy Remover goes now open source. Here’s the project site http://code.google.com/p/easyremover/.

One more thing… I posted the project as GNU Public cause they don’t have the “Works on My Machine” license ;)

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Jerry Seinfeld joins Microsoft

Almost two years ago I posted about a few funny commercials Seinfeld did for American Express. And now Jerry gives me a little more to talk about him as he joins a $300: Microsoft campaign to combat Apple. For those of you who don’t know Seinfeld (shame on you) he’s one of the greatest comedians of all times, and he’s pretty rich too… his deal with Microsoft is for $10:

But about that campaign, how expensive could it be to make Microsoft Windows a flawless system with enhanced usability features? I guess more than $300.000.000 :)

There are tons of Seinfeld’s videos online but I wanted to share one which is one of my favorites: Jerry Seinfeld on Larry King’s CNN show

(the poor old timer)

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Next stop: Florida!

I didn’t want to say anything but a few days ago Milano mentioned it in a post in our forum so I guess that gave me the green flag :)

We are now working on the next version of DeKlarit code-named “florida”. We want to add a lot of new stuff but I think one of the most important features will be the Silverlight addin which will let you create web applications with Silverlight controls. We are still in the process of making a few decisions like, will it be a full Silverlight app or will it have aspx pages as containers for the Silverlight controls? We believe the second is the best choice right now since we have two excellent web addins and we can use the navigation logic we already have in those. That means it will be pretty easy for you to migrate your current WebGenerator generated app to a brand new Silverlight app. Cool uh?

Also, we’re thinking on REST support for our WCF addin, WPF for a fully funtional WinGenerator addin independent of third party controls, something you guys’ve been asking for, and full text search in generated applications among others. Also, I have to work on our security features for the generated apps and add a few features like allowing a user to change his password, sending conformation emails and more.

So if you have any suggestions, now is the time. I can’t assure you we’ll implement them all but we’ll surely keep’em under the radar.

 

Read the full thread of the “announcement” here.

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Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WCF and WPF not available after installing Visual Studio 2008

It’s a fact, Microsoft wants you to use the 2008 version of Visual Studio rather than 2005. But what if you are in a big project, not ready to change the IDE, yet, and you want to install VS2008 to test the new features? They say everything works fine but the true is you loose an important extension: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF).

The problem is that you can’t install them because you have .net 3.5 installed so googling around I found a pretty useful post from Timur.

Just locate the installer with your Visual Studio 2005 command line and execute the following command:
msiexec /i vsextwfx.msi WRC_INSTALLED_OVERRIDE=1

I don’t know what’s going on with that package cause the site where it used to be available to download from is no longer available, so if you need it I uploaded to my SkyDrive account. Download it from here.

Edit: I also found it here, as I mentioned in my comment below.

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