After two and a half years working with
the ASP.NET team, I’ve decided that this is
the right time to leave
Microsoft and, with
the help of some friends, re-launch my ASP.NET training and consulting company.
The company has
the modest name Superexpert. While working on my Ph.D. at MIT, I was surrounded by professors and students who were passionate about knowledge. During
the Internet boom, I was lucky enough to work side-by-side with some very smart and hard-working people to create several successful startups. However,
the people I worked with at
Microsoft were among
the smartest and hardest working.
Microsoft hires a small number of people and gives them huge responsibilities. It continues to amaze me that so few people work on
the ASP.NET team when you consider how much
the team produces. I had
the opportunity to work with a number of inspiring people at
Microsoft. I’ll miss working with Scott Hunter, Dave Reed, Boris Moore, Eilon Lipton, Scott Guthrie, James Senior, Jim Wang, Phil Haack, Damian Edwards, Vishal Joshi, Mike Pope, Jon Young, Dmitry Robsman, Simon Calvert, Stefan Schackow, and many others. I’m proud of what we accomplished while I was working at
Microsoft. We reached out to
the jQuery team and changed direction from
Microsoft Ajax to jQuery. We successfully contributed several important new features to
the open-source jQuery project including jQuery Templates, jQuery Data-Linking, jQuery Globalization, and (as John Resig announced at
the last jQuery conference) jQuery Require. I’m looking forward to returning to training and consulting. We want to focus on providing consulting on
the “right way” of building ASP.NET websites, which we call Modern ASP.NET applications. By Modern ASP.NET applications, I mean applications built with ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, HTML5, and Visual Studio ALM. Additionally, we want to help companies that have existing ASP.NET Web Forms applications migrate to ASP.NET MVC. If you are interested in having us provide training for your company or you need help building a custom ASP.NET application then please contact us at
[email protected] or visit our website at Superexpert.com.