Hi Folk, firstly, sorry for not being around in the blogosphere for a while. Life has been changing far too rapidly, with castles building up in the air and floors collapsing beneath my feet rather too often, in the past month or two.
Life is settling now and I have things to say -
I am joining Microsoft Corporation. I will be working as a developer at the Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) at Hyderabad, on the Windows team, starting Monday Aug 23rd 2004.
On a personal note, there is a feeling of peace now. I had too many things I had been keeping up with recently – two user groups in different cities, a lot of community stuff, some insanity related to job shifts, following up frantically on the far corners of technology from design of VMs like Parrot and Scheme interpreters to CLR internals, language design, compilers, distributed systems, SOA and protocol architectures, getting under the hood of more things than I care to mention and a personal life that was spinning round and round. Of course, I was always also trying to keep a day job and a blog as well. All things seem to be settling now, or at least seem to be finding their own relative peace.
I am looking forward to the intellectual charm of the high halls of technology. The plan right now is to slow down for a few months, enjoy the company and the work, and to learn. Take a sabbatical from my thought-chataquas, relax on a few things and enjoy the blissful calm and peace of being a developer on a tight project at Microsoft.
For a while I might be rather quiet. Then maybe start working up speed towards those nagging ideas that come by and hold my mind and say “Roshan, I am not going to let you go until you have me solved”. I am not sure what they are going to be right now, but I have a feeling that they might have something to do with dynamic languages and a certain runtime…
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
...
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
Bob Dylan
The Times they are a Changin’
1963