Mash This Episode 5: ASP.NET Web API and Open Source with Brad Wilson
In case everybody wasn’t aware, and to be honest it is really my fault for not announcing this, but I started a podcast with Lee Dumond, Dustin Davis, and Keyvan Nayyeri called the Mash This Podcast which can be found here and on iTunes. We just released our 5th episode in which we talked with Brad Wilson of Microsoft about his work on the ASP.NET MVC and Web API team now commonly referred to as the ASP.NET Web Stack team. Our conversation started with us focusing on Microsoft’s major announcement that happened last week regarding the open sourcing and accepting public contributions to the ASP.NET Web Stack. The announcement surrounded the fact that were going to make the process of developing the web stack open source, under the Apache open source license, instead of just releasing the source at major release points like they have done in the past. The difference may be lost on some people, but this means the direction of the framework is now influenced by the community instead of just a select few Microsoft employees and ASPInsiders. ...