Farewell patterns & practices...

As some of you may already know, after 3.5 years, I have decided to move on with my Microsoft career. PAG/p&p has been my only group at Microsoft and it’s been a great run, but I realized that I need a new challenge to support my career development and personal growth. I will be joining the Microsoft.com Communities Team as (among other things) their lead on the Shared Source collaborative development initiative. For those of you who’ve seen my passion around having Microsoft employees and top customers building code together on top of the .NET platform (aka, not Windows and OfficeJ), this is no surprise. Juggling the community activities for p&p along with the marketing, partner, and business stuff had been a little challenging, but with my new position, I will get a little more focus over there and I think I can really be effective in solving what has been a challenge for Microsoft for years. There are some interesting things going on around my new role that will be announced soon (let’s just say it involves GotDotNet), so keep an eye on my blog and stay tuned. Of course, once a p&p guy, always a p&p guy, so I am sure I will still be blogging many of the same topics (though I've been getting more and more random anyway J). For those of you who have worked with me and enriched my time over the last few years, I extend a heartfelt thank you. Customers and partners were the best part of the job and I believe that I will still have to opportunity to serve you in a new capacity. I can't wait!