I saw an ad on Coding Horror where the text said “Use CodePlex to find open source software projects built by thousands of developers around the world.”. CodePlex? Never heard of it so I clicked.

Apparently it’s “Microsoft’s open source project hosting web site”. Doh! How did I not know this site? Weird. Ok, I’m a Java dude so I don’t actively look for .NET project hosting sites but still. Happy I “found” it.

Given the date of the site’s first blog post* it looks like it has been under my radar for almost two years. An observation is that, that first blog post don’t have any real comments. As I write this there are five pingbacks, one from an Italian developer in 2006, one from an MSDN blog couple of days ago, and the remaining three pingbacks that are copies of the MSDN one. Those last three are interesting in their own way as they are PingBacks from non-MSDN blogs that mirrors MSDN blogs. Clearly MFA sites(Made For Adsense).

*Ok ok, the first blog post doesn’t mean the site was launched then. A check shows that the first non-test project was added somewhere around Apr 28 2006 at 10:53 PM. Saved you some time now didn’t I?