We’re delighted
to announce that Red Gate will be backing Glimpse! For those of you who aren’t familiar with the project, Glimpse is an open source tool which does for the server what Firebug does for the client. It’s been in beta for the last year, and we’re very excited
to give Glimpse the support and dedicated effort needed
to take it
to a v1 and beyond.
Glimpse’s founders (Nik Molnar and Anthony van der Hoorn) have joined Red Gate, and they’re just as excited as we are about the opportunities that active development of Glimpse will bring. They will continue
to write code, support the community and drive the project forward (as they’ve done since its inception). With full-time attention on growing Glimpse and its community, users and developers can expect the project
to accelerate, with frequent releases of new functionality.
Red Gate is excited about its first major involvement with open source. You may well be wondering, though, why Red Gate is doing this. Glimpse dovetails beautifully with Red Gate’s .NET tools, which makes Glimpse an ideal framework for plugging in advanced, paid-for functionality (like performance analysis) the way web developers want
to see it. As a means
to this
end, we will contribute
to the Glimpse open source project in order
to broaden its adoption and delight web developers.
Since bringing in .NET Reflector in 2008, we’ve learnt sharp lessons from the community about the right and wrong ways
to engage with developers, not
to mention the enduring value of free. Glimpse further shows what the .NET community can achieve through open source collaboration, and we’re looking forward
to working with the Glimpse community
to make something enduring and awesome. Nik and Anthony, themselves passionate advocates of community-driven software, will continue
to control the Glimpse project, steering it
to best meet the needs of its users and contributors.
If you have any questions or queries about Glimpse, or Red Gate’s involvement in the project, please tweet with the #glimpse hashtag, contact us at Red Gate on
[email protected], or post
to the Glimpse Development Forum on Google Groups.
