Sam Gentile on COM Interop
Carl and Mark have a chat with Sam Gentile (pronounced gen-TILL-ee) about sci-fi authors, COM Interop's problems, Extreme Programming, dual programming, unit testing, Sam's thoughts on the state of the .NET Framework, Groove, what's wrong with Com Interop, the cross-platform potential of the .NET Framework, the CLI, Rotor and Mono.
Guests:
Sam Gentile
Sam Gentile is an internationally known .NET Consultant, INETA Speaker, Blogger and author. He has been working with .NET since the earliest pre-Beta 1 period. During his first three years with .NET, he has managed to ship three .NET based products, one of which, the Groove Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET, recently won a JOLT award. As a .NET Consultant, Sam has worked with Microsoft, 3Leaf Consulting, Pacific MindWorks, and Groove to solve difficult .NET problems and help deliver products. During the Beta 1 timeframe, Sam was a member of the .NET Early Adopter Program (EAP) while architecting and implementing a .NET N-Tier product for NaviSite.
Sam is internationally recognized for his overall .NET knowledge, with his .NET Blog being viewed "as the pulse of the .NET community" as well as speaking at conferences such as Win-Dev on advanced .NET topics. His CLR blog is one of only three outside Microsoft listed on MSDN's CLR Blogger list.
He is the co-author of Wrox's Visual C++ .NET: A Primer, as well as articles published by MSDN (with Chris Sells), O'Reilly, and .NET Developers Journal. Sam has been a software engineer since 1985, after graduating with a BSEE in Computer Engineering.
Links:
- Sam's Weblog http://www.samgentile.com/blog http://www.samgentile.com/blog
- Book: Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201616416/qid=1073886328//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/104-8533954-9256723?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
- Book: Extreme Programming Installed by Ron Jeffries http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201708426/qid=1073886373//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/104-8533954-9256723?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
- CLI Partition Spects http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/
- Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 1.0 Release http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displaylang=en
- SSCLI Community Website http://www.sscli.net/
- It's the Runtime, Stupid http://samgentile.com/blog/Story/1989.aspx
- Is COM Interop Fundamentally Flawed? http://samgentile.com/blog/Story/1987.aspx
- Reflector http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/
- NUnit - Unit Case Test tool http://nunit.org/
- Sam's Sci-Fi Classic List http://samgentile.com/bestsf.htm