Sunday, September 05, 2004
Join the scary/invisible revolution
Ever wanted to work on something really cool, but which will affect the daily work of thousands of people around the world, but is for internal-use-only?
We have an opening for a dev lead / architect to work at Dell on our internal Xanadu project. You can learn more (a little more) here...
With Microsoft now culling stuff left and right from Longhorn, it has become all too clear that you can't wait for MS to set things straight - you need to build your own solutions.
The teaming building Xanadu has a track record of seeding ideas into Microsoft, and staying 3-4 years ahead of them. For example, Microsoft redesigned their early ASP.NET efforts after we showed them what we were working on back in 1999. Many features such as the hierarchical composition model and trace came directly from our internal web publishing system. The day after we saw ASP.NET at the 2000 PDC, we showed MS what we trying to do in terms of creating a pluggable base template that defined the layout of the page controlled what showed up where. 4 years later we got ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages.
It seems likely that by the time Blackcomb arrives (in 2012 or so), MS will have realized there is a way to build a common object / programming model for both web and rich-client apps. But why wait? We're building it today!
So if you are a dev lead / architect (one that writes code, and not just talk about it) with several years of .NET experience and a track record of delivery... and of course if the idea of doing something scarily ahead of the curve interests you, pmail me at my work address: steve_saxon@dell.com.
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We have an opening for a dev lead / architect to work at Dell on our internal Xanadu project. You can learn more (a little more) here...
With Microsoft now culling stuff left and right from Longhorn, it has become all too clear that you can't wait for MS to set things straight - you need to build your own solutions.
The teaming building Xanadu has a track record of seeding ideas into Microsoft, and staying 3-4 years ahead of them. For example, Microsoft redesigned their early ASP.NET efforts after we showed them what we were working on back in 1999. Many features such as the hierarchical composition model and trace came directly from our internal web publishing system. The day after we saw ASP.NET at the 2000 PDC, we showed MS what we trying to do in terms of creating a pluggable base template that defined the layout of the page controlled what showed up where. 4 years later we got ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages.
It seems likely that by the time Blackcomb arrives (in 2012 or so), MS will have realized there is a way to build a common object / programming model for both web and rich-client apps. But why wait? We're building it today!
So if you are a dev lead / architect (one that writes code, and not just talk about it) with several years of .NET experience and a track record of delivery... and of course if the idea of doing something scarily ahead of the curve interests you, pmail me at my work address: steve_saxon@dell.com.
