.NET editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson sat down to talk with Microsoft Software
Legend Chris Sells at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003. In
this exclusive interview, Sells talks about how he became involved with
teaching and writing about Microsoft technologies, how he came to work for
Microsoft, and what it's like to have a hand in the development of the .NET
Framework.
.NETDJ: Who are you?
CS: My name is Chris Sells, and I am a member of the Windows development
community as well as a content strategist in charge of the MSDN Longhorn
Developer Center Web site.
.NETDJ: What are you best known for?
CS: My boyish good looks (laughs)? ATL Internals - a joint effort between
Brent Rector and me.
.NETDJ: How did that book come about?
CS: I was going to be DevelopMentor's first Java instructor. I was digging
through the Java stuff and a lot of it I liked, but... (more)
From time to time, I find myself lassoing a sacred cow in this Editorial
space, dragging it over to the slaughterhouse of rhetoric, and ultimately
barbecuing its falsehood over the stainless-steel, six-burner,
propane-powered grill of real-world experience. To wit, the current industry
obsession with SOA as a panacea for every information system ill from
performance to security is, in my humble opinion, a phenomenal load of crap.
Now, please don't misunderstand me. I am not saying that there isn't a myriad
of benefits to be derived from exposing systems' functionality for access b... (more)
SYS-CON Radio interviews Michele Leroux Bustamante, Associate of IDesign Inc.
about the importance of planning design, architecture and infrastructure and
service level agreements to build reliable, scalable and secure 24x7 hosted
Web services environment.
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The issue of this magazine that you now hold in your hands represents a
landmark of truly historic proportions. Never before in the realm of .NET
media has any magazine dared to focus an entire issue on the topic of
non-Windows CLI implementations. For many of you, this will be your very
first glimpse of technologies guaranteed to dramatically change the way in
which you work. For others, the very existence of this issue should be seen
as the ultimate vindication of all the long hours you have labored unsung
building the next generation of CLI.
If you aren't familiar with the ... (more)
Derek Ferguson has recently interviewed Rocky Lhotka, the creator of CSLA. In
this interview, Derek discusses some of the things that originally led to the
creation of CSLA, as well as where Rocky sees object-oriented development
heading in the future.
.NETDJ: Who are you?
RL: Well, I think that it’s really a two-part thing. First, I’m
the technology evangelist for Magenic. As such, I do a fair amount of
mentoring and high-level consulting with Magenic’s customers. Second,
I’m a professional speaker and author. In that role, I spoke at 35
different events ... (more)