My last blog as a Sun Employee

Yes, it is true. This is my last blog as a Sun Microsystems Employee. After working at Sun for 8 years, I've decided to take an opportunity outside of Sun. I joined Sun after switching my career from a Scientist to a Software Engineer, with  little commercial software development experience, but leaving with great satisfaction and lots of experience. 

During my tenure as a Software Engineer at Sun, I learned,  re-learned and finally perfected the art of Commercial Software Development. It could not have happened with out working side by side with great minds and contributing to the Netbeans Visual Web development tool. The knowledge I gained was not just limited to software development, but working  with great QA, Doc, Sustaining,  Marketing and Release Engineers widened my horizon. Last but not the least is the management, the best I ever worked with.

It was a tough decision to make, but in the end the temptation to take another challenging opportunity won. The company I'm going to join is Aptana. Aptana provided End-To-End Ajax solution for Web developers using JavaScript, PHP, Ruby and Python. I will be contributing mainly to the Aptana Studio product line.

I may not continue the work on the Generic Web Page Designer for Netbeans, I proposed, but similar designer could show up in the Aptana Studio, you never know!.

Thanks for reading my blog at Sun Microsystems. I will continue my blog in my own personal website blog.winstonprakash.com in the future. Hope to see you there. Signing off from Sun Microsystems blog posting.

Posted at 10:29AM Sep 08, 2008  |  Permanent link to this entry | Comments [10]