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Monday, January 18, 2010

Interview With WiX Guru Rob Mensching

Though I don’t use WiX anymore, I do still follow the project. You may ask yourself why I don’t use it anymore since I created a series of WiX articles and apparently spent a lot of time with it? The answer is simple: I switched jobs about a year ago and MSI’s are overkill for deploying our current solutions (all web) to the web servers.

Back to the topic though. A few days ago Scott Hanselman published an interview with Rob Mensching (creator of WiX) that should be interesting to you if you’re using or planning to use MSI’s. One thing that was new to me though is that Rob actually created Orca as an intern at MS in 98! If you don’t know/use Orca you should really check it out (even though Rob says nobody uses it anymore :-) ). It’s a great small tool that lets you peek inside and change the internal MSI database. Really helpful to find out what’s going on inside an MSI.

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Monday, January 18, 2010 11:26:15 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Hi, I'm Jon Arild Tørresdal. I’m an Architect for the Norwegian insurance company Frende Forsikring, chapter Lead of Norwegian .Net User Group (NNUG) in Bergen and .NET editor for InfoQ. I've been coding professionally since 1998 and on .NET since 1999. I'm an early adapter always looking for new ways to put technology to use for the company I work for, at NNUG or just as an excuse to do some coding at home.

I’m a great fan of Agile practices like XP, Scrum, Kanban and Lean. My first experience with Agile was in 2006, when I introduced Scrum to CMA Contiki (my former employer), which was a great success. Later I found the lack of engineering practices in Scrum pulled me closer to Extreme Programming. I’m constantly trying to motivate developers, testers and other agile team members to adapt the Agile way of thinking to improve the overall quality of software delivery. My motivation for studying these practices is to constantly improve the way I and others work in my organization; both by having fun and adding value to our customers.

I’m also a speaker, focusing on engineering practices (clean code), Agile and best practices (often represented in forms of patterns). At work I often find myself doing presentations on technologies we're about to adapt or how to improve our agile process.

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