Open Source

We’re working on a client project where one of the requirements was a Sparkle-style updating mechanism. For those of you who are Mac folks, you’ll be familiar with the Sparkle “A new version of YOUR FAVOURITE APP is available!” window, with the options to skip, remind me later, or install the update.

Fortunately, there are at least two open-source versions of Sparkle for .NET programmers:

Jamie sent me a link to a great review of the Business of Software conference, and before you think I'm going to go off on one of my business-analyst posts, I'm actually going to talk about "dogfooding".