Mike Griffin on EntitySpaces
Mike Griffin, creator of MyGeneration and EntitySpaces, talks with Carl and Richard about EntitySpaces, a persistence layer and business object system for the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework, as well as his experiences with LINQ and other technologies.
Guests:
Mike Griffin
Mike Griffin co-authored and founded MyGeneration Software with Justin Greenwood in late 2003 to early 2004. MyGeneration is now right at the top in CNET download.com's .NET Utility category.
But, it wasn't always that way. MyGeneration opened with a meager offering that supported SQL Server and Oracle, and only supported VBScript and Jscript. Since then, it has grown to support 13 databases, added support for both C# and VB.NET, has a huge online community sharing templates via the MyGeneration Online Template library, and has been featured in several magazines. The MyGeneration Source code has now been released on SourceForge.NET under the BSD license.
Mike also created dOOdads, a .NET architecture that became very popular and helped fuel the desire for MyGeneration. Mike created the MyMeta metadata engine for MyGeneration and there is no better metadata engine for the Microsoft .NET Framework.
In 2005, Mike started working on a new architecture, one that would be sold as a commercial offering and take advantage of the features in .NET 2.0, and thus EntitySpaces was born. Creating a new offering that would be commercial was more than a one person project, so Mike set out to find some key resources and he found them.
Mike has proven that he can build communities around products and energize others to rally around them. Mike is a senior architect with Leaf Software Solutions.
Links:
- EntitySpaces Main Site http://www.entityspaces.net/portal/Default.aspx
- MyGeneration Home (free) http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/portal/default.aspx
- EntitySpaces Team Blog http://www.entityspaces.net/blog/
- Template Library http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/templatelibrary/default.aspx