Halfwit on Codeplex
There’s an age-old quote (I’m not entirely sure who first said it) that goes something like this: “It’s better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
In a lot of ways I feel like that when it comes to source code. I love to talk about programming, and I’m more than happy to offer help on others’ projects, but I haven’t “opened my mouth” and shared much of my own source code.
Well, today I’m removing all doubt. I’ve uploaded the Halfwit source to Codeplex. You can grab a copy, have a read through, spend a few minutes getting over the “anti-pattern shock”, then build it for yourself.
The project was created in Visual Studio 2010 RC, but it’s .NET 3.5 SP1, so with a bit of hacking in the .sln or .csproj file you could probably get it to build in Visual Studio 2008.
Let me know how you go – I’m very new to this open-source thing, and may have forgotten to upload some critical file.
Comments
# Deems
22/02/2010 7:25 PM
I can confirm this works fine in VS 2008. All you need to do is extract the project (and dependencies) files and open up the Halfwit.csproj file in VS 2008 and it will compile and run first time.
# jamesewelch
23/02/2010 4:54 AM
Cool. Maybe one day we'll see comicster up on codeplex, too :)
# mabster
23/02/2010 7:51 AM
Could happen, James. The Codeplex experience has been quite good so far.