Brian Harry's Blog

Shutting down CodePlex

March 31, 2017 Mar 31, 2017 03/31/17

Brian Harry

Almost 11 years after we created CodePlex, it’s time to say goodbye.  We launched CodePlex in 2006 because we, like others in the industry, saw a need for a great place to share software.  Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of amazing options come and go but at this point, GitHub is the de facto place for open source sharing and most open ...

Hosting GPLv3 Projects on CodePlex

October 3, 2013 Oct 3, 2013 10/3/13

Brian Harry

I’ve been a bit quiet here recently about what’s been going on with CodePlex.  I don’t blog every time we do a release otherwise I’d be blogging about the site every week, but we made a change today that I thought was worth mentioning – the GPLv3 license has been added to the list of open source licenses available when creating a ...

Codeplex upgraded to TFS 2012

October 2, 2012 Oct 2, 2012 10/2/12

Brian Harry

I haven’t been blogging about it regularly (because there’s a separate Codeplex blog) but Codeplex continues to march forward.  We’ve done some good work on pull request workflow, work on streamlining and bringing forward the code focused experience, etc.  This last week, we also upgraded our Codeplex TFS servers to...

Codeplex UI Refresh

April 30, 2012 Apr 30, 2012 04/30/12

Brian Harry

Today we launched our new Codeplex look and feel that I previewed a few weeks ago.  As I said then, we’ve redoubled our effort on Codeplex and you should expect to see it evolve fairly rapidly.  First Git support, now a new look.  What’s next?  Stay tuned and you’ll see. Check out Mark’s blog post to...