Sunday 24 June 2007

Coding Frenzy

Novell have just produced an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight application development framework. But just look at how they did it (see below). I expect each and every developer involved will be sueing Novell in years to come for RSI complaints..
clipped from arstechnica.com
In a blog entry, lead Mono developer Miguel de Icaza describes how his small team of globally dispersed developers managed to conjure up their entire Moonlight prototype (almost 25,000 lines of C++ code and over 13,000 lines of C# code) in only 20 days by giving up weekends and working 12 to 16 hours per day in a remarkably epic "hackathon."
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