Distinguished T-Shirt Engineer Best Hits
One of the fun things I used to do while running the CLR team was help pick out the final design for our t-shirts (not that picking out code generation strategies wasn’t also fun). Fortunately Sonja Keserovic on our team is a master at designing awesome shirts (while not doing her day job designing engines and languages). She just sent me the “best of” shirts from over the years:
“Enter the Core”
You’ll notice a big movie inspiration in the designs. The matrix style green text is actually the MSIL for “Hello World” run through ildasm. You can read through the PE file header and string table in addition to the IL instructions themselves.
“Roll Call”
Always the analytical bunch, this shirt has every email name for everyone on the team. Colors denote discipline (I’m white for ‘pointy hair’), font size denotes how long you’d been on the CLR team. The island behind the front logo is Whidbey island, the code name for V2.0.
“One Runtime to Run them All”
Around the time of LOTR, this text that makes up the ring is actually the source control root for every Microsoft project using the CLR at the time (with a nice Elvish style font).
“Don’t Panic”
The final build number for the V2.0 product was V2.0.50727.42, just around the time the Hitchhiker’s Guide movie came out. Did I mention we like geeky stuff?
Sonja is now a SDE on the languages team in VS and is creating an awesome new VS design involving pi calculus, can’t wait to see it!
Comments
Anonymous
June 17, 2009
Damm these are awesome. You could sell these you know :)Anonymous
June 18, 2009
You should definitely sell them. If you decide to...i want to place an order or can I do it now? They look great...and I'd love one (all) of them :)Anonymous
June 18, 2009
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June 18, 2009
I would love to wear "One Runtime to run them all" at work where I have few anti .net people :)Anonymous
June 18, 2009
I think all of us joined the CLR after Sonja left would also like to order them...we missed out!Anonymous
June 19, 2009
Same holds for Windows. "One operating system to shine on all."Anonymous
June 21, 2009
One for all and all for one, beautiful T-shirts. Would like to have at least oneAnonymous
June 22, 2009
"Around the time of LOTR".... I would love to see how the CLR runs on hardware that was available between 1937 and 1949......Anonymous
June 24, 2009
These are really nice. You can never have enough cool t-shirts and sadly, it is often hard to find good ones when you want them.Anonymous
July 07, 2009
Hello ! The pics are available ???? Not displayed :(Anonymous
July 12, 2009
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July 12, 2009
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July 13, 2009
You wouldn't know what cool was if someone put you in a freezer.Anonymous
July 14, 2009
One for all and all for one, beautiful T-shirts. Would like to have at least one