I recently discovered Jeff Atwood's blog, CodingHorror.com and I have to say, I have been extremely impressed with the quality of articles and subject matter that Jeff writes about. His articles are consistently about interesting topics, thorough, well researched and extremely well written.  I'm proud of the fact that Axosoft has become the first sponsor of CodingHorror.com, because CodingHorror is such a great service to the developer community.

What's even more impressive about Jeff is that he's taking a significant chunk of his advertising revenue and donating it to Microsoft .NET-based Open Source projects.  Wow!  What an amazing thing to do.  Shouldn't Microsoft be the ones doing something like this?  It blows me away when individuals like this step up, innovate and do something totally out of the box to solve a real-world problem.  With Jeff's influence with software developers and his generosity with real hard-earned cash, I'm sure his support of MS-based open-source projects is going to go a long way to create great products for all of us to benefit.  Way to go Jeff!

But Jeff's great step forward for open-source made me think there's a lot more that companies like Axosoft can do to help push open source projects too.  In fact, I have decided that Axosoft will provide a free copy of Axosoft's OnTime 2007 Suite, Installed or Hosted for Microsoft .NET-based open-source projects that needs a team-collaboration tool.  We'll have to figure out a good way for teams to apply for a free license -- until we do, feel free to just email me (hamids ** at ** axosoft ** dot ** com) your request.  Be sure to include information and links about your product, team size and as many pertinent details as you can offer, so we can get you taken care of asap.

Oh, and if you are a developer, subscribe to Jeff's blog before you do anything else!  It's definitely worth your time.