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.
