Finding success in OSS

I’ve been working in open source for quite some time and wanted to share some of my experiences in regards to managing OSS projects and communities. I’ve been employed by Umbraco, an open source .Net…

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Introducing ‘Smidge’ – an ASP.NET 5 runtime JS/CSS pre-processor

During the past month I decided to dive deep into learning ASP.NET 5, and what better way to learn than to start a new OSS project :) I chose to make a new new simple and extensible Javascript/CSS runtime pre-processor for ASP.NET 5. It does file minification, combination and compression, has a nice file caching layer and it’s all done in async operations. I ported over a few ideas and code snippets from CDF (client dependency framework) but with a more modern approach. I’ve called it ‘Smidge’ = something really small.…

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