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John Gossman's observations on Avalon development

Sparkle

Now it can be told...I am a developer on Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer aka "Sparkle".  We finally announced the product at PDC last week and I gave a presentation on how we built the product.  I promised the attendees I would blog the content in a fuller way, as there was simply too much material to cram into a 45 minute lunch session...and I will, as soon as I get caught up from a week out of the offiice.

In the meantime, you can learn more about "Sparkle" from this video:  http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=115387

Also, I recommend my colleague Manuel Clement's blog:  http://spaces.msn.com/members/manodesign/PersonalSpace.aspx

Published Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:13 PM by JohnGossman

Comments

 

dhchait said:

Nice job on sparkle... now back to work alphabetizing those work orders!! :-)
September 20, 2005 10:04 PM
 

dhchait said:

John,

Mano seems quite bullish on the notion of designers and developers seamlessly interoperating...

People I've discussed it with are skeptical - we've been promised the same with visual interdev, asp.net, etc. but it has fallen down in real-world practice on big systems.

What are your thoughts about making this work in the "real world" -- i.e. without world-class designers like Mano who grok the technology AND have the design chops. Will I be able to allow your average graphic designer/artist type who's never seen a line of C# check in to my source tree?

Thanks for your great demo and for what looks to be a sweet product.

Cheers - Daniel
September 22, 2005 7:50 AM
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