I've recently been working on getting three Stanford friends hired at Apple, one for an internship and two for full-time positions. Of course, all I can do is recommend that teams interview them; I don't actually control the hiring process. Tonight I found out that the intern candidate will be getting an offer. Yay! One out of three is a good start, but three for three would be even better....
While catching up on just a little bit of my massive pile of email from the past few weeks today, I headed over to sscli.net and signed up for the sharedsourcecli project. That's a site that opened a few weeks back for projects involving Rotor, hosted by CollabNet. It provides a way for folks working on Rotor to get their changes into a source distribution that the entire community can use, rather than sending them in to Microsoft and not knowing what will come of them.
For Rotor's 1.0 release last year, I did a lot of unofficial work to make the code more portable, so it'd be easier for people to move it to additional operating systems that we didn't support. Some people have ported various Rotor releases to additional platforms, but in the process of doing so they typically break the officially supported ports of FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. What time I find to spend working on the code at sscli.net will be spent moving Rotor to additional platforms in a way that makes the code more portable, not less.