{"id":5,"date":"2005-04-06T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/indigo\/5"},"modified":"2005-04-06T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T06:12:11","slug":"a-little-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"A little history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I joined Indigo in 2001, I worked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mac\/\">Office for the Macintosh<\/a>.  So it was really easy to describe my job to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judywolfseigel.com\">Mom<\/a>.   Explaining what I do as the tech lead for Transports and Channels takes a little more time.  For while she&#8217;s familiar with Word and Outlook, if I mentioned Named Pipes and TCP I might as well be speaking in Klingon. So here it goes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/Longhorn\/understanding\/pillars\/Indigo\/default.aspx\">Indigo<\/a> is a communication platform,  that developers use to write computer programs that exchange information with other programs (on the same machine, across the internet, etc).   Programs send <em>Messages<\/em> to each other over <em>Channels<\/em>.  I&#8217;m responsible for making sure these Channels get the Messages from A to B .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For my Mom, I tell her that Bill thinks it&#8217;s important and we stop there.  For this blog, we can now begin.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I joined Indigo in 2001, I worked on Office for the Macintosh. So it was really easy to describe my job to my Mom. Explaining what I do as the tech lead for Transports and Channels takes a little more time. For while she&#8217;s familiar with Word and Outlook, if I mentioned Named Pipes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[85,91],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigo","tag-wcf","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}