NuGet is a Visual Studio 2010 extension that enables you to download and use shared code libraries with the Microsoft development community. This is Microsoft’s attempt to benefit from a large development community and pool of shared code, a concept enjoyed by many open source communities such as Drupal and Ruby on Rails. The extension [...]

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It’s been remarked upon of late that the concept of beta software has changed dramatically over the last ten years. Perhaps Google was a major influence (sigh… Gmail) or perhaps the Internet in general. The terms ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ have become muddied and confused over the years. Here is what these initial releases once meant: [...]

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