{"id":4449,"date":"2011-06-06T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4449-gang-of-four-member-erich-gamma-joining-microsofts-visual-studio-team.html"},"modified":"2011-06-06T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:37:03","slug":"gang-of-four-member-erich-gamma-joining-microsofts-visual-studio-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4449-gang-of-four-member-erich-gamma-joining-microsofts-visual-studio-team.html","title":{"rendered":"Gang of Four member Erich Gamma joining Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Jason Zander has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jasonz\/archive\/2011\/06\/06\/welcome-erich-gamma-to-the-visual-studio-team.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>that Erich Gamma will be joining the Visual Studio team as a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gamma is one of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwasp.co.uk\/GofPatterns.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gang of Four<\/a>\u201d who shook up software development back in 1994 with the book <i>Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The other authors are Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides.<\/p>\n<p>Gamma has previously been associated with Java rather than .NET. He was co-developer with Kent Beck of the <a href=\"http:\/\/junit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JUnit<\/a> unit test framework, and also worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eclipse<\/a> tools platform and at IBM Rational on application lifecycle management (ALM).<\/p>\n<p>It is a prestigious hire and I would expect Gamma\u2019s influence on Visual Studio to be a positive one, especially in areas like software quality, refactoring and ALM. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Jason Zander has announced that Erich Gamma will be joining the Visual Studio team as a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Gamma is one of the \u201cGang of Four\u201d who shook up software development back in 1994 with the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. The other authors are Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4449-gang-of-four-member-erich-gamma-joining-microsofts-visual-studio-team.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gang of Four member Erich Gamma joining Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio team<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26,55,67,80,94,97],"tags":[586,955],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-development","category-microsoft","category-professional","category-software-development","category-visual-studio","category-windows","tag-microsoft","tag-visual-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}