new job
Quiet here, huh? Been busy, including a 12 week parental leave.
Now that I've been back at work a couple weeks, I can tell you what I've been up to.
I'm no longer on the C# or Debugger teams. I have a new gig.
The neat thing about working on development tools is that we write code for people who write code. It's meta-software-development.
Now I'm doing meta-meta-software-development. The devs that write Visual Studio need tools to make their jobs easier, and that's what I get to do now.
For example, in order to set up a machine to develop VS, you need:
- An instance of VS that is fast (optimized), and stable
- An instance of VS that is current, easy to debug, and probably has a bug that you're about to fix
- A copy of the source tree that exactly matches that test VS.
- A variety of tools, like bug tracking and profiling.
My plan is to make setting up a machine this way foolproof, so the devs don't have to worry about it any more, and focus their attention on making great features.
Good news: I get to write my tools in C#! That means I'll be using what I spent the last few years building.