Wow...Mark Anders is at Macromedia

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Wow...Mark Anders is at Macromedia

Cool, Mark Anders (or someone claiming to be Mark) just replied to an old post of mine:

Actually, I was at Microsoft untill exactly the date of Bob's, Aug 13th, when I joined Macromedia. Scott and I started the ASP.NET team back in Jan 98, and I ran it and the .NET Framework team until Dec, 2002. I then started a project called "Nautilus" to ... well I probably shouldn't say! :-) I'm now at Macromedia and really love it. While I can't really say what I'm working on at this point, it's a lot of fun and I think will be very interesting! :-)

Thanks for you interest!

Mark

Incidentally, the *Scott* is not me :-), rather Scott Guthrie. Ok, so who knows,

1. if this is really Mark (call me suspicious :-)) - his IP address is in San Francisco though...which makes sense...
2. What was / is "Nautilus"
3. What's he up to at Macromedia (should I be buying Macromedia shares?)

What's happening to the ASP.NET team? Well, technically Mark wasn't on the ASP.NET at the end but with Rob leaving then Mark things are looking pretty interesting.

Print | posted on Monday, September 06, 2004 12:57 AM

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# re: Wow...Mark Anders is at Macromedia

Interesting that you were able to figure out my IP address. I'm actually in Seattle at the moment, home for the holiday weekend, and I'm in the process of moving down to San Francisco. However, I'm VPN'ed in to work, so that must be why it showed up as being in San Francisco.

As for Nautilus, while I can't say anything about it, if you search the Microsoft career site, you'll get some tidbits. Here's one of the jobs listed...

http://www.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=7a258c0b-3952-43f6-b3b4-0ed933518696

As for whether you should buy Macromedia shares, I can't say. However, I definitely am.

As for the ASP.NET team, they're still going strong, and are still a fantastic team. Scott Guthrie continues to run it. They've done a super job on ASP.NET 2.0.

Finally, the only way that I can prove it's me is to say that I of course remember you, Scott. We had a great conversation at the ASP.NET show in London, have corresponded over the years, and we saw each other when you came out to Redmond a few years back! Believe me now? :-)

Left by Mark Anders on Sep 06, 2004 7:21 AM

# re: Wow...Mark Anders is at Macromedia

Mark, totally believe you now :-) The Macromedia stuff should be really interesting, especially if it relates to their Developer tools / getting involved in some way with .NET - that'd be really cool!

Left by Scott Galloway on Sep 06, 2004 9:06 AM

# re: Wow...Mark Anders is at Macromedia

Oh, should say, .TEXT logs IP addresses (helps with blocking comment span), and there's no magic in the location stuff - see http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

Left by Scott Galloway on Sep 06, 2004 9:08 AM

# re: Wow...Mark Anders is at Macromedia

Interesting Scott, .NET in general can only become better with the help of Macromedia...

Interesting sleuthing..

Left by Brendan Tompkins on Sep 07, 2004 1:43 AM

# re: Wow...Mark Anders is at Macromedia

hey mark,

I have trying to locate you for some time know.

E-mail me when you can

p.s. Tawny says hello

Left by john oconnell on Jan 12, 2005 8:02 PM

# re: Wow...Mark Anders is at Macromedia

hey mark,

I have been trying to locate you for some time know.

E-mail me when you can

p.s. Tawny says hello

Left by john oconnell on Jan 12, 2005 8:15 PM

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