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Moving on

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It's been an interesting journey, these last 3 ½ years. I was hired at Microsoft, after an internship the summer before my senior year, to work on a long-lead effort creating new IDE components and developer tools. On my first day back, my boss from the internship sat me down and broke the news that that project I'd come back to work on had been canceled. Instead, I was told we'd be putting the editor from that project into Visual Studio, which would require a fairly small shim layer to get things working. Since then, I’ve had 3 leads (Tim, Fiona, and Michael), moved offices only once (!), written a lot of shims, released 14 extensions to the VS gallery with ~130,000 (non-unique) downloads, worked with a lot of other VS teams to make the editor not crash too much, helped Blend/Powershell/DynamicsAX host the editor outside of VS, wrote box selection, contributed to a number of other VS2010 editor features, fixed about 400 bugs, and collected only one “official” demerit.

I feel that it's time for something new, so I've decided to pursue career opportunities outside Microsoft. My last day here is February 18th, after which I'll be starting a new job in Kirkland.

I'm not sure what will happen to this blog. If the articles are taken down, you can the source (in markdown) for most of them on my github blog project. You can also continue to find me on twitter (@noahsmark), and email me (I'm noah, the domain is noahsmark.com).

I'm not sure who all reads this blog, but I want to say thanks to you anyways. One of my favorite parts of working on the editor has been working with people writing extensions for Visual Studio, so thanks for all the questions and feedback.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2011
    Noah, thanks for all the effort you put into your work. I was happy to read a blog of a very passionate and great MSFT developer and I'm really sad now that I've read about your leave. As extension developer it was great to know that there is somebody who knows what it's like to write an extension and whom I could possibly ask in case I have some problems. Nevertheless, I wish you all the very best!

  • Anonymous
    February 11, 2011
    Good luck, Noah!

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2011
    Thanks for your professionalism. Your name was/is a quality mark of its own. I hope we can hear about you again. Thanks and good luck for your next job.

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2011
    Good luck!  Let us know where you'll be blogging next. All the best.