Community Convergence XXXII

Welcome to the thirty second issue of Community Convergence. I write these posts to keep you up to date on the latest information from the C# team. The biggest news right now is probably not C# specific, but nevertheless lots of my fellow team members have been excited to see that a Windows 2008 Release Candidate is available for download. Note that further down in the this text I call out a post from Scott Hanselman on this subject.

Top C# Team Bloggers

I thought I would take a moment to call your attention to our team's top bloggers. Eric and Matt are two of our most popular bloggers; they earn this distinction by consistently creating great material. The up and comers are Mads and Sreekar, who have both started their blogs within the last year or so, and who have quickly established themselves as two of the best C# technical writers. Jomo and Dinesh are established bloggers who have had shored up their formidable reputations with a steady stream of contributions in the last few months. Luke Hoban is perhaps our biggest success story, as he has been blogging since August, 2005, but it is only in the last few months that we have seen his numbers shoot up on the basis of a series of very good, very technical posts. Overall, we have seen growth from all but one of our hearty band of posters during the last year.

1. Eric Lippert
2. Charlie Calvert
3. Matt Warren
4. Cyrus Najmabadi
5. Jomo Fisher
6. Dinesh Kulkarni
7. Luca Bolognese
8. Mads Torgersen
9. Luke Hoban
10. Sreekar Choudhary

Here is a chart showing five C# bloggers who have posted most often since August 2006. This is the one category where I take top honors, with 115 posts.

 

From the C# Team

Charlie Calvert

• Anonymous Types in Query Expressions
• C# vs VB: Charlie and Beth Massi on .NET Rocks. Here is Beth's post on the same subject.

Jomo Fisher

• Adventures in F# -- Lazy like a Fox

Other Microsoft Bloggers

Scott Hanselman

• Scott Sells Out!
• Surviving the First Three Weeks
• Windows Server 2008 RC0 and Virtual PCs

Scott Guthrie 

• IIS 7.0 Hits RC0 - Lots of cool new IIS7 Extensions Also Now Available

Notable Downloads

• Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate
• Tortoise SVN with Team Foundation Server
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2
• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
• Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
• Adventureworks Database

 

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2007
  You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2007
  Hi Charlie, Any word on when we might expect RC1 of Visual Studio Orcas? Kind regards - tom

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2007
  Always look forward to the CC posts!

• Anonymous
  October 08, 2007
  You forgot the cool Yet Another language geek http://blogs.msdn.com/wesdyer Wes did blog about a lot of interesting stuff, he seems to be busy now, but I loved his posts much.