.NET Developers Making A Difference

With tens of thousands of .NET developers working on .NET projects, there are a lot of great folks who are making the world better one line of code at a time.  Although it is impossible to acknowledge everyone who makes a difference without having a REALLY long post, there are two folks we would like to acknowledge for their contributions.

We enjoy their work and have benefited from what they have shared with the world and thought you might too!

Scott Hanselman

Scott is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has three podcasts, http://hanselminutes.com for tech talk, http://thisdeveloperslife.com on developers’ lives and loves, and http://ratchetandthegeek.com for pop culture and tech media. He’s written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide.

Garry Pilkington

Garry is a full stack Web Developer who is just as comfortable working with front end code as back end infrastructure. Being a specialist with Microsoft technologies has allowed him to work within the Health, Education and Logistic sectors of the UK market and have over 10 years experience as a developer. He is the author of ‘Modern Enterprise Web Applications’, a primer aimed at departmental heads who need to get up and running with modern applications fast. He also is an astrophysicist by degree and has an avid interest in astronomy and develop software for this sector including ‘MoonPhase’; a Windows 8 Store App. He is the also coordinator of the astrolib project on CodePlex; a library of useful utilities for astronomical calculations. Blog can be found at http://blog.asteropesystems.com/

Special thanks again to Scott and Garry for making the world of .NET development a productive and powerful place to write code.  Keep up the great work!