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Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed by that corporation. They may have an open license, they may take patches and contributions, they may have given the copyright to some non-profit foundation, but for all practical purposes, it’s still that corporation that controls the project and makes the big decisions. That wasn’t what we wanted for Orchard. We wanted to trust the community completely to do what’s best for the project. This is why we organized elections for our new Steering Committee and had five members elected. Anyone who had...
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Well, as I wrote before , today is my last day at Microsoft. Last night we had our office Holiday party in the observation deck and lounge of the Space Needle. The party was just fantastic and we were lucky to have a nice clear evening with spectacular views. What a great way to go! I had a brief exit interview where I handed over my badge with an air of finality. However, I am still an employee until midnight tonight. So it’s not so final just yet. Which is a good thing as the NuGet team is working to deploy the new NuGet.org gallery tonight if all goes well. Once that’s been up for a few days and we’re comfortable with it being stable, we’ll release NuGet 1.6. In the meanwhile, my office has been razed of all the good equipment including my...
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A few weeks ago we introduced a beta of a freshly designed http://asp.net website. Today we launched it. Jon , myself, and the team that manages the site took lots of your feedback (lots from the comments of the Beta Blog Post ) and did our best to incorporate as much as we could. This is just the start, and we've got lots of plans for the future including responsive design, more text content, localization, more HTML 5, HD Video, closed captioning and lots more. It is a big site with a thousands and thousands of pages. However, a lot of those pages were hard to find. We're continuing to try to folks what they need in fewer clicks. There's new content for people getting started , including " choosing a technology " videos...
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Today, October 15 2011, marks four years of being a Microsoft employee for me. As such, it’s time for a little introspection, but in many ways, Tim Heuer already introspected for me . Much of what he writes echoes my own experience, thus leaving me with less to write about. It’s the Microsoft way, or the highway. Which is conveniently located near Microsoft Way. - Photo by Todd Bishop , CC BY 2.0 Looking back in my archives, I realized I haven’t written a whole lot about what it’s like to work here. I do have a few posts such as… My announcement about being hired . I was really floored by the number of folks who commented (112) to wish me well. Thank you! Not long after, I blogged about drinking from the firehose . I blogged again at the one...
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It's Day 1 of the Mix 11 conference here in Las Vegas. I work for the Web Platform and Tools (that's ASP.NET, IIS, IIS Media, etc) group and I did the Web Platform demos for Scott Guthrie's part of the keynote. A lot of people in Dev and QA worked hard all year long to make some fun and cool products and as the designated "talking head," I had just 16 minutes to make all of them (people + products) look good. I hope I did them all justice. We built a backend and a front end for Rob and my sie http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com . The show is something Rob Conery and I do moonlighting on the side (it's our hobby, not our job nor a Microsoft thing) but we needed a new site and this was a fun idea since we built the original...
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A colleague of mine from the Data and Modeling Group mentioned that they have a new senior developer position open working on their new datajs project. This developer would be responsible for defining how modern web and mobile applications use and interact with data on JavaScript platforms. We deal with and work on defining a number of standards including HTML5’s IndexedDB and OData, as well as provide a new set of end-to-end experiences for accessing, managing, and storing data in JS. What’s interesting to me is that datajs appears to be an open source project under the MIT license ! From its description on the datajs CodePlex page , datajs is a new cross-browser JavaScript library that enables data-centric web applications by leveraging modern...
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At PDC10 last November I did a talk on the " Unnamed Package of Web Love " , showing ASP.NET MVC3 and Razor Syntax, the NuGet Package Manager, as well as SQL Compact Edition and a little " Entity Framework Magic Unicorn ." I make up my own names when I don't like what Microsoft names things, as you may notice. Today Microsoft announced the (actual, final, honest) releases of: ASP.NET MVC3 with Razor Lots of new features, the new Razor syntax, more extensibility hooks, new JavaScript features, better validation, easier caching, better dynamic support, and lots more. This includes the NuGet package manager and the NuGet gallery is also in early beta at http://nuget.org for folks who want to create and publish their own...
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Episode #2 - Orchard Project 0.8 Microsoft Orchard is an exciting new CMS - Application Development Platform from Microsoft. It's free, flexible and powerful. As Orchard approaches V1 release Joe catches up with the driving forces behind the project! [ Listen – Download – Subscribe HERE ] Technorati Tags: Microsoft , MSJoe , Podcast , Orchard , Open Source Read More...
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It's a holiday miracle! OK, maybe not a miracle, but folks have been working hard on Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1. The BETA was released today. See how BETA is in RED? That's because it's a beta . Funny thing about beta service packs. They are Service Packs so there are lots of good bug fixes. But it's beta , which means we, Dear Reader, are not sure if they've missed some. It's beta software, so be careful. Back things up, maybe take a disk image. There is a go-live license, which means you can use this software today and use it in production. Upgrading from SP1 Beta to SP1 "final" will be one step. If you hate betas, feel overwhelmed, don't like being on the cutting edge and don't want obscure...
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A basic practice in software development of all types is to use mechanisms that allow us to write and maintain code in a single place no matter how many difference places that code is used throughout our entire application. When we’re building web sites, and more specifically web pages, the reuse of UI code can be especially challenging as the nature of web applications are stateless and in most models there is a 1-to-1 relationship between endpoints and “files”. In ASP.NET WebForms we have master pages. In Microsoft WebMatrix we have Layout Templates. One of the advantages of the general move towards “standards based” web development is that HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can generally be used across different web development platforms and the technique...
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