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Looking back, going forward

May 11, a sunny day in my little corner of the world, was my last day at Xamarin. I’ve spent an amazing 9 months working on Mono for Android, but more than that, Xamarin was a continuation of my work in the Mono team that started in 2006 back at Novell. So, in a sense, this is an end of a cycle.

These past 6 years have been life-changing; I dove into professional open source development head first, worked with an amazing team, met a ton of great people, and learned and did so many things that sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s only been 6 years. Some projects were successful, some not so much, but nothing was ever routine or mundane. Moonlight was a particularly amazing experience, working with C#, C/C++ and JS inside a browser with bridges and refcounting and all sorts of crazy hacks to build an UI toolkit from scratch, and Mono for Android was a inspiring challenge that taught me more about mobile development than I thought possible. Impossible is not a word that the Mono team use much ;-)

So long, and thanks for all the fish

I am, as of now, officially no longer at Novell / Attachmate (I guess you can say I’m detached, I know I do).

It’s been an amazing 4 and a half years, working on an awesome project inside a little bubble of craziness infiltrated in a corporate environment that never understood us (it’s ok, we never understood them either).

As for what I’ll be up to next, stay tuned!

New job, new open source project, happy little coder

As the title says, I have a wonderful new job, working full time at Novell on my favourite open source project, Mono. What more can I say? :D happy little coder does happy little jiggly dance