October 2007 Entries
Rob Conery, the author of the coolest DAL utility known to man (AKA SubSonic) has joined the ranks of ASP.NET gurus at Microsoft.
He now may be getting paid by Microsoft, but his work is still the same. Can you beleive it? They are paying Rob to continue his efforts on Subsonic, and even integrate it with the ASP.NET Teams MVC framework!
Very cool news... Lets see, Scott Gu, working together with Shawn Burke, has brought in Phil Haack, Scott Hanselman, and now Rob Conery. Who's next? I would be putting my money on Mads Kristensen, but he's not American. Huh.
::: now back to...
Expander World has come and gone. Wow, what a couple interesting days they were!
I simply relish in mingling with the SuperOffice development community. There is such a wide range of very interesting professionals, there is never a dull moment among them. With so many different projects going on around a single software platform, I get to glimse many fantasic solutions to everyday problems. I truly do consider myself blessed for being able to know and work around so many brilliant men and women.
Here is a screenshot of my first presentation of the seminar, "DevNet News and Roadmap".
There was almost 100 people at this...
Simply Wow! Taking the open source initiative to new heights, Microsoft decides to open up access to the source of .net framework libraries. Someone is definately shaking things up inside the box! Of course its a little (*alot) restrictive with what you can do with it, but hey, its out there!
Read all about it on Scotts blog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx
Where to next?
Heres a little more by Shawn Burke, one of the pushers to get it out there.:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2007/10/03/making-net-framework-source-available-to-developers.aspx
Nice...
You may never had associated the title words with the Internet or web-based applications, but I predict that within 15 years thats exaclty the type of experience we will be getting used to on a day to day, site-to-site, basis. Web developers today can either get relevant or get lost.
With applications and technologies like Photosynth, Seadragon, Popfly, and Silverlight, that's exaclty where Microsoft is headed.
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/ : "Newest and most exciting way to view photos on a computer. Takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how...