Linus Torvalds is a busy guy.  Not content with pushing badge-name Unix vendors into the land of the legacy system, and creating an operating system that’s nigh on won the server market (It’s not looking too shabby on mobile and embedded systems, either), he somehow managed to find the time to revolutionise source code management as well.  Anyone who’s jumped straight between Subversion* and git will know quite how radical a change it is.  But the reason I love it is that it’s fundamentally changed the mindset of open source software. You see, although open source projects were meant...

I can't be the only person who has been frustrated by the inflexible nature of Visual Studio solutions and projects.  So when Krzysztof asked for someone to write a program to convert vanilla .NET projects to Silverlight projects, I jumped at the chance.  Of course, I then proceeded to take four months to deliver what is, in all honesty, a fairly simple piece of code.  Anyway, it's finally checked into Castle Contrib at https://svn.castleproject.org/svn/castlecontrib/SolutionTransform/trunk/. Ironically, I've already blogged about the basic architecture, although the code is now a bit more complex than the braindead example I was running with at the...