I read this in Joe Stagner's blog this morning. Like it says on the eWeek report, they "looked for people who not only had a tangible track record of IT success, but also have far-reaching influence, the hability to effect change and a deep level of engagement in developing emerging technologies".
In late 1998, Scott and Marc Anders generated what they called XSP (an abbreviation with no meaning) - a new way of creating Web applications in and object-oriented manner instead of the procedural manner of ASP 3.0. They showed their idea to many different groups within Microsoft, and they were well received. In the summer of 2000, the beta of what was then called ASP+ was released at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference. The attendees eagerly started working with it. When the technology became available (with the final release of the .NET Framework 1.0), it was renamed ASP.NET - receiving the .NET moniker that most of Microsoft's new products were receiving at that time. (Taken from the introduction of the book Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Evjen, Hanselman, Rader).
Nowadays, Scott is a Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division. He runs the development teams that build ASP.NET, Common Language Runtime (CLR), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Windows Forms, Internet Information Services 7.0, Commerce Server, .NET Compact Framework, Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio Web and Client Development Tools. He is best known for his work on ASP.NET, which he and his colleage Marc Anders developed while at Microsoft. (Architecture Journal Profile).
I decided to start my blogging adventure with this post because I do like ASP.NET (a lot !!!). It is not only the technolgy I prefer to implement web solutions, but my hobby too. It is great to know this innovation will never stop because always something new shows up, and it is challenging to take this innovation into the real world every day. Ok, I have started blogging... I hope this also never stops !
Carlos Figueroa - Quito, Ecuador