I still remember the day when I joined Microsoft in Oct 2004. I was excited to be in my dream company, and at the same time, quite tense that I would now be required to support ASP.NET. I was a pure WinForm guy then and since I came from a very small company, “I am a pretty good programmer” thought was getting etched somewhere deep in my mind. Boy, what a big frog I was in a really shallow well! I still thank God for getting me here and showing me the mirror. Not that I’ve become a genius of any sorts, but now I probably understand a little bit more about the term “Smart Programmer” and why you shouldn’t be calling GC.Collect too many times, why knowing the architecture is as important as coding itself, why web garden in IIS is not supposed to fix all your performance issues, etc. etc. etc. !!

Over the last 4 years, I have learnt a lot of things and have worked with some pretty amazing folks. Folks who debug and fix all sort of issues with ASP.NET/IIS and still so humble about it.

I loved my stint at DSI. I am feeling nostalgic and super-excited yet again, since on 8th of September, I would no longer be a part of IIS/ASP.NET team. I would be joining as a Product Field Engineer for Sharepoint. I hear that Sharepoint is rocking the world stage big-time, and it will be a pretty nice task that I will be doing. Reminds me of the fact that history repeats itself. From a Winform to IIS/ASP.NET and now over to Sharepoint. Let’s see what future has in store for me.

For the few folks who read my blogs, expect a lot more stuff on Sharepoint. And by the way, it happens to be my last post at http://blogs.msdn.com/rahulso. Going forward I will be posting exclusively on http://www.dotnetscraps.com. 

For my dear team members > If you are reading this, I am sure that I am NOT gonna miss you, since we’ll keep in touch always !!

-Rahul