Engineering Excellence Award for Script#

Every year, Microsoft holds an Engineering Excellence Conference. This is that week. In addition to a variety of conference sessions around engineering practices and trustworthy computing, a number of awards are handed out during the opening keynote.

One of the awards that is handed out recognizes innovation in tools and practices that promote better engineering and have broad impact, and adoption. I am glad to share that this year, Script# was presented this award. :-)

In terms of impact and adoption, a number of product teams across Microsoft are using Script# to implement their Ajax-based Web experiences. It is always fun to see folks adopting something you've worked on and creating some amazing applications, but more importantly, the award helps make a case for the productivity wins and the engineering discipline that Script# can bring to Ajax development by leveraging the .NET programming model and tools. In addition to Live Messenger and Live Mesh, there are others that are in the works (that I don't think I can share publicly just yet), but as always, I'll share as and when they do become public.

I'd like to say thanks to those who helped champion the technology early on beyond just a personal project, and help improve the project - folks like Steve Gordon, Shaofeng Zhu and Justin Rockwood from Microsoft, and Wei Zhu, who is now at Facebook, as well as the many others, internal and external, who have shared feedback, bug reports and enthusiasm over the course of the last couple of years.

I've been a bit on the busy side recently, but still to come is sharing sources over on the CodePlex site in addition to the ongoing discussion forums.