{"id":645,"date":"2008-05-29T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T09:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2008-05-29T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T09:32:43","slug":"danny-thorpe-back-at-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/645-danny-thorpe-back-at-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Danny Thorpe back at Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Thorpe, best known for his work on Delphi at Borland, is <a href=\"http:\/\/dannythorpe.com\/2008\/05\/28\/into-the-maelstrom-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">returning to Microsoft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I will soon be jumping back into the Microsoft maelstrom, this time in the Visual Studio \/ Developer Division (devdiv) team. I will again be telecommuting from Santa Cruz. I\u2019ll be part of a new incubation team composed of Chuck and a few other legendary devdiv veterans (I\u2019m not sure I can say who yet) working on stuff to make accessing Windows Live services easier for developers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have had great respect for Thorpe ever since reading his book on Delphi Component Design, which despite its age is still a good read if you want to know how the Visual Component Library in Delphi hangs together. His career has been a bit butterfly of late &#8211; from Delphi to Google to work on Gears, then Microsoft developing Live Services, then working on browser plugins at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooliris.com\" target=\"_blank\">cooliris<\/a> (makers of PicLens); and now back to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>If Microsoft is to bring its Live Services into wide use, strong Visual Studio integration is a must; I guess this may be what his new role is all about.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:57680955-8682-464e-875d-bd9dfb9a1de7\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/danny%20thorpe\" rel=\"tag\">danny thorpe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/live%20services\" rel=\"tag\">live services<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/visual%20studio\" rel=\"tag\">visual studio<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Thorpe, best known for his work on Delphi at Borland, is returning to Microsoft: I will soon be jumping back into the Microsoft maelstrom, this time in the Visual Studio \/ Developer Division (devdiv) team. I will again be telecommuting from Santa Cruz. I\u2019ll be part of a new incubation team composed of Chuck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/645-danny-thorpe-back-at-microsoft.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Danny Thorpe back at Microsoft<\/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":[55,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}