Contents tagged with Microsoft
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Quantum computing and topological qubits explained clearly
Don't let yourself be intimidated by all the quantum jargon. The bases of quantum computing are not that complicated, and I can explain them to anyone who understands programming, classical logic gates, the bare minimum about complex numbers and linear algebra… I'll do so in the light of Microsoft's recent announcement of a new discovery that could bring us much more stable quantum computers.
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The Evil Empire Strikes Back
A little more than three years ago, I left Microsoft, and co-founded Nwazet, a hardware company that built cool products for makers. At the end of 2014, we sold our intellectual property to ModMyPi. Since then, I’ve been doing freelance consulting and development under the name Decent Consulting, and I’ve also been building a new CMS based on Node.js: DecentCMS… And today was my first day back at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager.
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MVP Award 2015
Happy new year to you all! For me, it’s starting quite nicely, as I received my first MVP award this morning, in recognition for my open source work, in particular on Orchard. It’s a great honor, and I want to thank Microsoft and all the people who made this happen. Thanks to all of you for reading me, as well, and for encouraging me over the years with your great feedback, and for some of you, with paid work ;)
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Unit tests are to testing…
Developing good software at a large scale requires the collaboration of several disciplines, that are not, contrary to your boss’ opinion, interchangeable. You need developers, of course, but you also need designers, PMs, QA, writers, usability people, localization, pointy-haired bosses, etc. There has been a tendency in some companies, however, to try to get developers to do more and more beyond coding, or even to magically transform test engineers into developers.
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The CMS ecosystem and Microsoft
CMS is extremely important strategically for any web company. About 35% of web sites use a CMS, and the top ones are all PHP (WordPress on its own is more than 20% of all web sites). In other words, if you care about the market share of your web platform, you need a good CMS running on it.
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TypeScript first impressions
Anders published a video of his new project today, which aims at creating a superset of JavaScript, that compiles down to regular current JavaScript. Anders is a tremendously clever guy, and it always shows in his work. There is much to like in the enterprise (good code completion, refactoring and adoption of the module pattern instead of namespaces to name three), but a few things made me rise an eyebrow.
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Leaving the Evil Empire
TL;DR: I’m leaving Microsoft to found my own company. My involvement in Orchard continues unchanged.
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About Orchard Governance and Microsoft
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.
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Orchard 0.5 is out
Before I joined Microsoft seven years ago, I had spent a couple of years building a Web CMS. It wasn’t open-source unfortunately but the experience convinced me that most public-facing web sites would shortly use some form of CMS. I also forged strong opinions about the right level of component granularity that a CMS must implement.
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Hiring for new super-secret project
Well, I guess it’s not so super-secret anymore now but these last few months, I’ve been transitioning from ASP.NET Ajax to a new project that aims at helping ASP.NET communities build Open Source applications on ASP.NET. It’s a lot of fun and the good news is that you can join in. We are hiring a senior developer: