Phil Haack on Subtext and Open Source
Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his work with Subtext (a derivative of the .Text blog software package) and his work on various open source projects.
Guests:
Phil Haack
Phil Haack has over twenty years of experience in the software industry. Prior to A Serious Business, Inc., he was a director of engineering at GitHub and helped make GitHub friendly to developers on the Microsoft platform. Prior to GitHub, he was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for shipping ASP.NET MVC, NuGet, among other projects. These products had permissive open source licenses and ushered in Microsoft’s Open Source era. Phil is a co-author of GitHub for Dummies as well as the popular Professional ASP.NET MVC series and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He’s also made several appearances on technology podcasts such as .NET Rocks, Hanselminutes, Herding Code, and The Official jQuery Podcast. You can find him sharing his thoughts at https://haacked.com/ or on Twitter https://twitter.com/haacked.
Links:
- Haacked.com http://haacked.com/
- 19 Eponymous Laws Of Software Development (rds) http://haacked.com/archive/2007/07/17/the-eponymous-laws-of-software-development.aspx
- Definition: eponymous (rdu) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eponymous
- Akismet Anti-Spam Web Service (rdx) http://akismet.com/
- Koders.com code search engine http://www.koders.com
- Microsoft Open Source (re0) http://www.microsoft.com/opensource
- Microsoft and Open Source (re1) http://haacked.com/archive/2007/07/26/microsoft-and-open-source.aspx