It’s easy to forget the real people behind any given project, especially one the size of Indigo with Don as the pretty figure head. In this video, Don (via Robert and Channel9) shows you a fraction of the people that work on the team and they reveal their deepest past implementation shames and triumphs. Put a face on CoInitializeSecurity and enjoy.
While not nearly as extensive as Christophe Nasarre's 3-part look at MSBuild (part 1, part 2 and part 3), Klaus Aschenbrenner has provided a nice 3-page overview of MSBuild, including the major elements, a "hello world" .proj file and even a quick look at building custom tasks.
In the interview, Don answers questions like "How did you get started in computer technologies" and "What's your favorite vegetable," but he also answers much more interesting questions like “I’m perfectly happy using ASMX for Web services - why should I care about Indigo?” and “So, how will Indigo be better than WSE 2.0?”
Apparently Eric Gunnerson, confident that C# is now perfect (and who can blame him?) has decided to work on the Longhorn Movie Maker team (and who can blame him?).
I find these strangely compelling, especially this one:
Languages Zen Koan: “One day Fred was working with .NET. He overheard a programmer say to his superior, “Give me the best programming language you have.” “Every language in .NET is the best,” replied the butcher. “You can not find any language in .NET that is not the best.” At these words, Fred was enlightened.”
Daniel Lehenbauer, SDE on the Avalon team, posts another article on Avalon 3D with fabulous figures. As a guy that relies on screen shots and the kindness of his friends for such luscious figures, I've very jealous. Check it out.
