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Microsoft Open Sourcing Azure Mobile Services SDK on GitHub

42 points by alpb 14y ago

bunderbunder 14y ago
Microsoft's been open-sourcing more and more SDKs for a while now. It's good to hear about another, but what's really interesting to me is the bit about partnering with Xamarin. Since its inception there's been fear about Mono being a dangerous platform to develop on because Microsoft might try to torpedo the project at any moment. This is far from the first time that Microsoft has publicly given the Mono project their blessing, but one that comes in the form of a business partnership is still nice in that it might help cut through the FUD just a little bit more.
- dwd 14y ago
  The other really interesting part of this is that they are releasing it to GitHub, not Codeplex like previous releases.
  - cek 14y ago
    Codeplex didn't start supporting git until March of this year. Azure has been posting on github since 2011. I suspect Azure will continue to use Github; moving would disrupt a lot of developers. https://github.com/WindowsAzure https://github.com/WindowsAzure
    - malkia 14y ago
      There is also https://github.com/MSOpenTech https://github.com/MSOpenTech - that has the redis 2.4 version for Windows using bksave-cow (background save in a thread with copy-on-write) instead of fork()/save...
- drhowarddrfine 14y ago
  Microsoft torpedos lots of things and Mono will eventually be one of them. No self-respecting *nix engineer would allow Mono on his system so it's rather pointless. Only Microsoft people want Mono, never the other way. I'm sure Microsoft's "open source" is not as "open source" as anything from anyone else.
faulkner 14y ago
It's nice to see them using Github more, but I'm surprised to see that creating a simple todo app is this much work: https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services/commit/3a4f65a9c892212e5990cad54fcef1b5a4c13a54 https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services/commit...
- fourstar 14y ago
  Some of that has to be boilerplate that comes baked in, no?

42 points by alpb 14y ago

Microsoft's been open-sourcing more and more SDKs for a while now. It's good to hear about another, but what's really interesting to me is the bit about partnering with Xamarin. Since its inception there's been fear about Mono being a dangerous platform to develop on because Microsoft might try to torpedo the project at any moment. This is far from the first time that Microsoft has publicly given the Mono project their blessing, but one that comes in the form of a business partnership is still nice in that it might help cut through the FUD just a little bit more.

dwd 14y ago
The other really interesting part of this is that they are releasing it to GitHub, not Codeplex like previous releases.
- cek 14y ago
  Codeplex didn't start supporting git until March of this year. Azure has been posting on github since 2011. I suspect Azure will continue to use Github; moving would disrupt a lot of developers. https://github.com/WindowsAzure https://github.com/WindowsAzure
  - malkia 14y ago
    There is also https://github.com/MSOpenTech https://github.com/MSOpenTech - that has the redis 2.4 version for Windows using bksave-cow (background save in a thread with copy-on-write) instead of fork()/save...
drhowarddrfine 14y ago
Microsoft torpedos lots of things and Mono will eventually be one of them. No self-respecting *nix engineer would allow Mono on his system so it's rather pointless. Only Microsoft people want Mono, never the other way. I'm sure Microsoft's "open source" is not as "open source" as anything from anyone else.

faulkner 14y ago

It's nice to see them using Github more, but I'm surprised to see that creating a simple todo app is this much work: https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services/commit/3a4f65a9c892212e5990cad54fcef1b5a4c13a54 https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services/commit...

fourstar 14y ago
Some of that has to be boilerplate that comes baked in, no?