Autodesk Developer Blog

Innovate. Integrate. Automate

The end of an era

—

by

Madhukar Moogala
in

By Stephen Preston

FentonIf you're an ADN member, if you've  been to Autodesk University, if
you use the Autodesk forums, or if you follow this blog then you will undoubtedly know Fenton Webb. That is why I'm writing a post here to announce that – after 13 years serving the AutoCAD developer community – Fenton is moving on to pastures new.

I'm very sad to lose a colleague who joined the ADN team in the same year as I did, but I'm happy for Fenton that he's found a position with another team at Autodesk where he can work on something new and challenging. Fenton has moved to our installer and licensing team – a team he's been working very closely with over the last two years as part of his work on the Autodesk Exchange store (creating the installer template we use for apps on Autodesk Exchange, as well as the internal tools we use to automate the installer creation process for those apps). Fenton will be working on some top secret projects that I'm not allowed to talk about on this blog.

On behalf of the ADN team and (if I may be so bold) AutoCAD plug-in developers everywhere, I'd like to thank Fenton for his hard work and imagination in serving the AutoCAD developer community over the last 13 years. Hopefully, once he's settled into his new position, he'll be able to continue blogging on this site again, and he will be helping us out at AU with several classes in the Developer track and at our DevLab workshop. Bon chance et au revoir Fenton.

Fenton will be very difficult to replace, but we'll try.

Comments

6 responses to “The end of an era”

  1. Alexander Rivilis Avatar
    Alexander Rivilis

    On the one hand I am very happy for Fenton – sometimes you need to change jobs, but on the other hand it will be very miss without him. For over ten years he gave great answers to questions of ADN members. We can say that he is a legend for those who create applications for AutoCAD and other Autodesk products.
    And I agree with Stephen that replace Fenton will be very-very hard!

    Reply
  2. Loic Avatar
    Loic

    Bad news for us oarx developers.
    Thanks to Fenton for the work he did helping us all struggling around dark side of Object ARX or even darker OEM installer!
    Congrats for his new job!
    (are these top secret projects that such secret that they require this secret agent suite?)

    Reply
  3. Steve Hill Avatar
    Steve Hill

    Congrats to Fenton on his new job and many thanks for all of his help to me with the recent Autodesk Portathon event.
    Stephen, if you’d like to blog about some of those top secret things Fenton will be working on, you can blog them on my site – I will allow it. ;) Good luck in tracking down a replacement for Fenton – hopefully it won’t take too long.

    Reply
  4. Fenton Webb Avatar
    Fenton Webb

    Thanks guys, I really appreciate it! Loic, I’m glad you like the outfit, I’m housing a PPK under the jacket!!!

    Reply
  5. BlackBox Avatar
    BlackBox

    Congrats, Fenton!
    I’ve truly enjoyed the many opportunities to both learn from, and interact with you.
    Thank you for all that you’ve done for this community, for me personally, and may you be even more successful in all of your future endeavors!
    Cheers

    Reply
  6. Nikolay Poleshchuk Avatar
    Nikolay Poleshchuk

    Best wishes for new position, Fenton! Thank you for help, glad to meet you in San Franciso the last year!

    Reply

Leave a Reply