Re: Did you contribute to the Visual Studio Scripts, I want to know!

Hi:
Those guys Ken mentions are the main folks I remember as some of the root 
developers. Will Pearson was one of the most interesting of all the gurus. He 
was a Microsoft VIP and had an amazing understanding of the MS development 
environment from a practicle and theoretical perspective. If I remember he was 
working on his PHD over in England. Eventually he had other projects whichhave 
dragged him away from posting much on list but he was an amazing intellect when 
it came to anything Microsoft related.
I think Ken or Sina or Inthane might know how you might contact him if you want 
to do a short bio on the guys. Ken, Sina, Inthane and others continue posting 
on list and are very sharp, experienced  and well educated minds.  Inthane has 
built the backbone of the blind repository for allot of documentation and is, 
or was, a student if I remember. A short bio in a University peer publication 
would be a nice little pat on the back for those folks who opened up the Visual 
Studio Programming Environment to the rest of us.
Rick Farmington Mich. USA
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Perry 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:59 PM
  Subject: RE: Did you contribute to the Visual Studio Scripts, I want to know!




  Last time I looked all the contributors were listed in the top of the script 
file.  In fact I just opened it with my reply and here is what it says

  ;Contributors (alphabetically): Sina Bahram, Jamal Mazrui, Will Pearson, Ken 
Perry, Travis Roth, Peter Torpey



  Now with that said if you want to know kind of a chronology to things it 
started with Will and Travis  working with Microsoft.  I am not sure if Travis 
worked with Microsoft directly but I know Will was.  They had created a lot of 
basic scripts for it.  I then came along and asked if anyone had wrote 
anything.  Both travis and Will told me they had stuff but it was not ready for 
release.  I asked them for their code so I could put something together that 
people could use until something better came along.  So with their code and a 
bit of what I wrote the first scripts were born.  After that jamal has taken 
the project and ran like a crazed professional line backer straight through a 
high school defense.  The others listed have done modifications to fit certain 
needs.


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  From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
  Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:26 PM
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Did you contribute to the Visual Studio Scripts, I want to know!


  Hey everyone,

  It's been a while since I've mailed the list (quite the hectic summer for me, 
as I was looking for work (I ended up taking a professorship at Central 
Washington University)). 

  So everyone knows, I'm currently working on a journal publication of some of 
the blind programming work I've been doing over the last few years. In it, I 
want to site the Visual Studio 2005-8 JAWS scripts available on the grab bag 
site, and mention them as being the best available scripts for the environment 
(that I know of!).

  So, what does that mean?

  If you were a primary contributor to the scripts and you would like to obtain 
credit, please email in this thread with your full name. Alternatively, if you 
don't feel comfortable putting your name out publicly, but want credit, you can 
email me directly.

  And last, does anyone have an official contributor list? I only want to cite 
the top contributors (especially if there are many!), as there isn't much space 
in publications usually.

  Hope to hear from you, hope everyone is having a great summer.

  Andreas

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