How Software is Built Interview With Patrick Hogan
Written by Chad on July 13th, 2007Here is a new interview with the NASA World Wind project manager, Patrick Hogan. This interview was conducted by the web site “How Software is Built“. It is an interesting read, but of course, if you have been around World Wind long enough, you know all of it by now 
The article does give some interesting background information, new to World Wind users may find it informative. Even I get named in the article..
So you can make an add-on without being a programmer, but to actually make changes to the code to help that particular add-on do what you want it to do, that’s some of the stuff where this community has really provided technical expertise in concert with other folks who have a good idea and a lot of energy to gather and organize the necessary data for the add-on.
The two analysis tools for earthquake events were developed in that kind of mode. In this case, Chad Zimmerman assembled the data and designed how the functionality would work, he may not be a developer per se, but he’s built the necessary XML files. Then he got someone else, a ‘real’ programmer, to help make the necessary changes to the World Wind code.
Though I did do most the coding… just asked A LOT of questions and made some of the devs pull their hair out
The article does also go into Open Source, licensing and intellectual property as well. Some interesting comments from Patrick on those subjects. Now, if people want to buy into them or not, that is your own opinion on that subject.
