Month: August 2008

This week we talk with Chris Tavares, a developer on the Microsoft patterns & practices team, where he was the lead developer on Unity. He is also a virtual member of the ASP.NET MVC team, helping to design the new framework. Back in the day, he helped test out the effect of reference counting on .NET by building an experimental version of Rotor.

Links:

• Chris’ blog
• Unity
• Rotor – Reference Counting (word doc)
• patterns & practices

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Herding Code 15: Chris Tavares
[audio://herdingcode.com/wp-content/uploads/HerdingCode-0015-Chris-Tavares.mp3]

This week, we talk with Jeff Atwood (of codinghorror.com fame) about his soon to be released developer Q&A site, StackOverflow.com.

Links:

• CodingHorror.com (Jeff’s blog)
• The StackOverflow blog
• Robert Scoble’s post on StackOverflow (no, it didn’t make him cry)
• Jeff’s post about using OpenID on StackOverflow

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HerdingCode 14: Jeff Atwood (codinghorror.com) talks about StackOverflow[audio://herdingcode.com/wp-content/uploads/HerdingCode-0014-Jeff-Atwood-(codinghorror).mp3]

This is the first half of our interview with Glenn Block. He talks about the interesting stuff he’s been up to at Microsoft with Prism, Unity, and MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework).

Links:

• Glenn’s Prism posts – http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/tags/prism/default.aspx
• Prism – www.microsoft.com/compositewpf
• Unity – http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity
• MEF – http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/04/25/MEF.aspx
• MEF CTP – http://code.msdn.com/MEF
• Look for an article on Prism in the upcoming September issue of MSDN magazine.

Reminder: Geek Dinner with Jon, Kevin, and Jeff Atwood at the Pyramid Alehouse in Berkeley on 8/2 at 7 PM.

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Episode 11: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (Part 1)