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18 Years in Software Tools, an Insider's View

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learning-from-history dept.

calumtdalek writes "Newsforge (Also owned by VA) has an article on a talk given by Rico Mariani, an eighteen-year veteran at Microsoft, in which he speaks to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club, sharing his unique take on the history of, and controversies surrounding, Microsoft and the industry in general. Particularly illuminating are his responses to advocates of free/open-source software. The talk can also be download from the csclub's media server"

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  1. Rico writes the most interesting blog on MSDN by jeswin · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who are new to .Net, Rico Mariani used to be the performance architect in the .Net team. His blog Performance Tidbits, will give you tons of insight into making that .Net application run faster. For the naive, it also tells you when performance matters (which is not all the time). This feed sits right at the top of my subscription list.

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    Life is a conviction.
  2. No transcript, media download by Betabug · · Score: 4, Informative

    There seems to be no transcript, nothing to read.

    The only option is a couple of media files to download - at least they have options that should work on a variety of platforms.

  3. He's a programmer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The programming is important, everything else is secondary. He isn't against doing things as a community and has embraced a Wiki. His comments about it are quite positive. http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com/en-us/mtpswiki/defau lt.aspx