How Software is Built

Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Brad Wilson

In this interview we talk with Brad Wilson - Software Developer in Microsoft’s OfficeLabs team. In specific, we talk about:

• CodePlex, the Microsoft open source repository
• Community participation other than coding
• Open-source governance at Microsoft
• Open-source inroads and future at Microsoft

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In this interview, we talk to Scott Densmore about Microsoft’s CodePlex and the Patterns & Practice’s work on the Enterprise Library Version 4:

• Forking the Enterprise Library
• How Microsoft product teams are using the CodePlex repository for open-source code.
• How CodePlex is different from SourceForge
• Favorite CodePlex projects
• How CodePlex itself is community driven

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell.

Interviewees:Blaine Wastell and Glenn Block.

In this interview with Blaine Wastell and Glenn Block of the Patterns and Practices Group at Microsoft we asked them about:

• About the Patterns and Practices Group
• What makes them different from a typical product development group
• The software development methodology they use
• Some of the things that Patterns and Practices group has produced for developers.
• The role of CodePlex for their group.

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The OSI has approved the two Microsoft software licenses, the Microsoft Reciprocal License, and the Microsoft Public License.  This makes all the code on Microsoft’s CodePlex site (Microsoft’s equivalent of SourceForge) official open-source software, as much of it is licensed under the Microsoft Public License (formerly the Microsoft Permissive License).  It also means that things like Microsoft’s Ajax Control Toolkit is open-source (with the inherent ability to fork, etc.)