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Monday Sep 08, 2008

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:

Kepp in touch ... good know you virtually. All I can say is ... a big loss for SUN.

Posted by Rambo Mobambo on September 08, 2008 at 06:49 PM PDT #

Winston - thank you so much for your many solutions to late night vexing problems...

Posted by Luca on September 08, 2008 at 07:24 PM PDT #

"I learned, re-learned and finally perfected the art of Software Development."
Hehe the art of modesty is what needs to be perfected next :p

Good luck

Posted by vekaz on September 09, 2008 at 12:21 AM PDT #

Looks like Aptana is on a hunt.. Lots of great people from SUN have been moving to aptana.. Maybe i will move from netbeans to aptana IDE too in the future.

Posted by Venky on September 09, 2008 at 01:16 AM PDT #

Really sorry to see you go from the world of NB, but you leave treamendous work behind you. Your posts were usually eyeopeners and I always gladly came to your blog knowing I'll learn something valuable. Best of luck

Posted by Bojan on September 09, 2008 at 02:58 AM PDT #

Very sorry to see you go! All the best!

Posted by Geertjan Wielenga on September 09, 2008 at 04:11 AM PDT #

Good luck in this new adventure. i just want to say thanks.

Posted by javiersinnada on September 16, 2008 at 08:08 AM PDT #

That's bad news for Netbeans Visual Web ... Hope that doesnt mean to be yet another discontinued tool from Sun.
Maybe time to switch to PHP/Rails/.Net before it is too late ? ;)
wish you good luck.

Posted by Yme on October 01, 2008 at 07:33 PM PDT #

I had been a late visitor to your blog but now it has become a one stop destination for all my problems regarding visual JSF. Sorry to know that you are leaving the netbeans group.Hope you continue contributing about netbeans in your personal blog. All the best

Posted by Dikshit on October 14, 2008 at 12:32 PM PDT #

Its ok that you are going but Its very sad that you are taking away a dream with you - the generic web designer would have been a crown jewel to netbean's visual web statement.. and your nerve is to add that feature now to another IDE!

Posted by itsverysad on October 25, 2008 at 01:31 AM PDT #

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