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This little milestone may be of interest only to me, but I’m kind of amazed to be writing my 1,000th<\/strong> post on this blog.  In the 969 days since I’ve started this journey<\/a>, quite a lot has gone down.  Needless to say, if you weren’t reading this, I wouldn’t bother writing it, so thanks for all the encouragement.  I’ve felt like looking back over the effort to date & thought it would be fun to dig up some of the meatier posts.<\/p>\n

Since August 2005 I’ve gotten to announce an unprecedented public beta of Photoshop<\/a>; introduce Lightroom<\/a> (twice<\/a>); welcome a competitor<\/a> and lots<\/a> of new friends<\/a>; mourn the loss<\/a> of others<\/a>; fan<\/a> and then help defuse<\/a> controversy; celebrate new integration<\/a>; share some tips (e.g. Photoshop Text<\/a>; Killer B&W<\/a>); momentarily crack<\/a> the TechMeme Leaderboard; and more.  Oh, and somehow in there I became the #1 search term for "cs3 serials<\/a>," giving me a chance to throw Yiddish & Spanish at pirates<\/a> ;-). <\/p>\n

I’m proudest of getting to share some perspective on the challenges of developing Photoshop, hopefully giving some insight into the problems we wrestle every day (which are, of course, what make the job fun).  I’ve gotten to wax on many times about the sheer size of Photoshop & what it means we must do: <\/p>\n