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Please welcome Erich Gamma to the Visual Studio team!

  • Artikkeli

Today I am thrilled to announce that Erich Gamma will be joining the Visual Studio team as a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer!  Erich’s contributions have had a huge impact on the software industry.  Erich has a passion for shipping high quality, elegant software, something he shared with the community as co-author of Design Patterns.  He has always had a passion for building tools to make development more productive and pleasant. Together with Kent Beck he developed the JUnit unit test framework. He was one of the key technical leads of the Eclipse project and he has lead the Eclipse Java Development tools.  Recently his focus was on making teams more effective. He was an initial member of the Jazz project and the technical lead of Rational Team Concert. Finally, Erich has worked to bring teams together across the application life cycle and he was the lead of Rational's Collaborative Lifecycle Management effort.

Erich will continue to live and work out of Zurich, Switzerland where we will be opening a small Visual Studio development lab with Erich as the lead.  Erich will join the lab in early August.  For those who are interested in applying for positions with the new Zurich lab you can send mail to CHDevDiv@Microsoft.com to get details.

The Visual Studio team is passionate about inspiring developers to create great software.  We want to make developers successful and enable them to continuously deliver value.  We are constantly looking for better ways to accomplish these goals.  I’m very excited to have someone like Erich who shares our passion join the team.  Please join me in welcoming Erich to the Visual Studio team!

Jason

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2011
    What a news! That's great. -- Eric.

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2011
    That is really great news...

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2011
    Wow, Great news! Erich is one of my idols on Design Patterns. Looking forward to meet Erich soon in one of Microsoft Conferences or in Redmond. Welcome Erich.

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2011
    This guy rocks!

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2011
    WelCome to The Jungle Mr. Gamma . GoF Rulz

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Welcome, Erich!

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    That is great

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Welcome Erich! will wait for the VS vNEXT.

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Great news !!! I hope to see some new features and new "way of life" in Visual Studio soon :D Regards

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Great news :)

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Well Eclipse never became a stable and fully functional IDE. Let's see what he does with VS.

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    So, things are going to get more complicated and with less documentation ?

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Does this mean we'll see more of an "Open Visual Studio" in the future?

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Way to end a legacy

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    congratulations Mr.Erich Gamma

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    wonderful,  here is a link to many papers by Erich: academic.research.microsoft.com/.../erich-gamma

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Great!!

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    great news, welcome Erich!

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    welcome

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Welcome, Erich!  Fantastic news for Visual Studio.

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Glad to hear that. Congrats!

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2011
    Visual studio working with the betters

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2011
    Really cool!

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2011
    welcome Erich.. I cannot wait to see your job in vs team..

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2011
    Boo!!!!! Put him back

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2011
    Welcome !!       glad to hear that !

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2011
    Hi Jason, I sent mail to CHDevDiv@Microsoft.com several days ago. Could you please tell me when I should expect to get a reply? Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2011
    Really, really, really good news.

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2011
    @John - thanks for sending in mail, I'm checking to ensure it went through and make sure you get a reponse

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2011
    Great news 4 VS

  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2011
    Well, that's a great move for the VS team.

  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2011
    That's great news to VS team. Welcome Erich, I wish I could join a team like this! =)

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2011
    Great! MSFT is a place of legends of our time!

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2011
    awesome! now visual studio will become as bloated an slow as eclipse!

  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2011
    Comeback Erich! These guys don't deserve you! ;-)

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2011
    Great news!

  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2011
    So, it means that in the nearest future MSVS will transform to MSVIM? :)