It's been a long time since I started working for Ximian and the Mono project back in March of 2002.
I remember how a few months after starting, Miguel asked me if I knew anything about ASP.NET and I said "I don't even know what that is". He wanted me to start working on what later became XSP, the ASP.NET server. Once the server was working on Windows under the MS runtime, my job was to make it work on Mono, which involved a lot of work in System.Web, System.Configuration, the threadpool...
At that time only Dick, Paolo, Dietmar, Miguel and I were payed to work on Mono. Later on Lluis, Jackson, Martin, Sebastien, Atsushi, Duncan, Ben, Mike, Raja, Toshok, Peter, Jordi, Ravi,.. The best team EVER! Not only that, but also a whole bunch of good hackers spread all over the world were contributing (and still do) to the Mono project. They all have made the last 5 years of my life a wonderful experience.
In September I received an offer from Venafi, Inc. and I started working for them a couple of weeks ago.
I am going to miss the Mono project and all the people involved in it. I wish them and Novell the best.
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