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stevehauntson Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

Yeah, I agree. VS is still better, which is why I said in the article I wont use sharpdevelop in my professional work, but for someone who doesn't want too or can't afford to buy into VS then sharpdevelop is a much better option than VS Express imho.

stevehauntson Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

default support for MSTests would be nice as this is what I have written my tests in. There is an add-on for it, but it doesn't look that good. Its not real biggy though, it wouldn't take much effort to migrate my tests over to NUnit. TFS integration would be good too. For my personal projects I upload my source to Codeplex and I use the TFS integration for this.

Saying that I could just install the TFS shell extensions and check in/out code from explorer. Its not that much of a hardship.

stevehauntson Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

There is a comparison matrix between #develop and VS express here.

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/Vi...

stevehauntson Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

I don't think it necessarily has to keep up with VS as that will always be a loosing battle. I just think it needs to feature complete in its own way to make it a viable alternative, and I think they are at the point of achieving that.

stevehauntson Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

yeah i agree. I think sharp develop is coming along very well though. It will be interesting to see where they go with it. I am going to start using it for my personal open source projects, but for my commercial work for me and my teams I will stick with VS as we have MSDN licenses and support agreements in place.

stevehauntson Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility

Yeah I will do it in that order. Thanks for the help :-)

stevehauntson Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility

The idea is that it is easy to use. Gpg requires admin rights to install which you may not always have, if on a corporate network for example. If u have limited control on the machine or security of the network this utility gives you an easy way to get message based security where u control the key.

stevehauntson Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility

I will add hmac authentication of the cipher text.

stevehauntson Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility

I will fix this issue and release a new version.

stevehauntson Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility

I will add in a hmac if the ciphertext and IV and alert the user if the message has been tampered with. I will have it updated within the next week.

Thanks for the constructive feedback. This is why I posted it here and made it open source so I could get peer review, make the utility better and learn a few things along the way.

stevehauntson Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility

I will update the code to do a hmac of the message and then alert the user if the cipher text has been tampered with. Not that hard to add in.

stevehauntson Ask HN: Do you know a good online tool for assessing developers

I have not used a site specifically, but when I interview developers, apart from the normal technical questioning on their CV, I get them to design a simple object diagram, and then lead them to a PC. I ask them to code it test first. We observe them doing it to see how comfortable they are with the tools and that they can even complete the code for the design.

stevehauntson System Monitoring for Developers

Covers basic architecture and deployments.