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I took a close look at Edgewall Software’s trac tool today. It’s an integrated bug-tracker, wiki, Subversion repository browser and general project goal management tool, all available in a single web interface. It’s open-source and free for anyone to download.

The tight coupling of all the services seems to be a major win for this tracking tool. All of the components are aware of changes in the other components and can react appropriately. This is apparent in the timeline view that picks out changes from all the modules and puts it into a single project overview.

I’ve decided that after nearly a year of very little activity, it’s time to start looking for a new maintainer for nprof.

nprof is pretty much the only open-source .NET profiler on the map. It has support for multi-threaded, multi-appdomained applications and even has basic support for profiling ASP.NET.

I am sad that I have to move on from the project before it hit 1.0, but it’s clear that my limited time isn’t going to change any time soon. With someone that has time to contribute to it at the helm, I’m certain the 1.0 release will be spectacular.

Contact me either via email or on the nprof-developer mailing list if you are interested.

I accidentally posted my last entry while playing around with mo:Blog. It’s very handy to be able to compose a message offline and post it when you please!

The only missing feature is that I can’t seem to set categories per-post. There is an option to set the category per blog, but that’s a big pain to change every time.

I like Typo (and its XML-RPC backend) more and more every day.

I’m taking the plunge and making Typo my primary blogging engine.

It’s going to take a while to get used to the markup filter method of blogging (vs. the WYSIWYG method I was using before).

Typo gives you three choices for markup:

• Textile
• Markdown
• Markdown w/Smartypants

I think I’ve got my blog converted over to Typo now. It’s going to be a bit of a pain getting my old article archives up and running, but the tough part was just getting the blog ported over.

I’m not going to worry about importing all my old articles into the new blog. I have some mod_rewrite rules set up to ensure that all the articles are redirected from their many old URLs to their new homes.

I have the old news archive available here, but Google is still the best way to find stuff on here.

I’ve been very much impressed with the state of the Wine project lately.  It’s gotten to the point where I can assume that a program will work under Wine, rather than assuming that it won’t.

One of the major supporting companies, Codeweavers, has done a great job with packaging up Wine and putting a fair bit of polish into it.  It installs flawlessly (just run their custom installer) and then gives every user their own virtual Windows environment.  It also has support for a system-wide environment, but I haven’t played around with that much.