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NJ Finally Has Our Very Own Microsoft Regional Director
Congrats to Scott Watermasysk! He was recently awarded the Microsoft Regional Director designation for New Jersey (the first for NJ).
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Avalon Not Ensured To Be Included In Longhorn?
eWeek Senior Writer, Darryl Taft contacted me last week and asked about how I’d feel if Microsoft dropped Avalon from the Longhorn release, and then put some of my comments in this article. He mentioned that he had a quote from a Microsoft exec inferring that it may happen, but I didn’t realize that it was a quote from Soma Somasegar. My full comment was:
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NJ Dev Dinner 9/14/2004 – Special Edition
Right after the N3UG meeting (with Dave Douglass’ presentation on Generics), we will have a special edition of the NJ Dev Dinner. What’s the occasion? Microsoft Developer Evangelist Kirk Allen Evans is coming up from Atlanta, GA, and will be in the area. After the meeting we will move on over to Chevy’s for some fun, food, and drink.
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Code Camp II Blogger Dinner
Jason Haley was gracious enough to help setup a Blogger Dinner that will be held right after the Saturday activities at Code Camp II.
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Any Wilmington NC .Net Developers Looking For A Nerd Dinner?
I’ve got to travel down to Wilmington, NC for a client (from NJ), and was wondering if anyone down there wants to get together for a Nerd Dinner sometime between Sept. 20 & 23. I know it is a sleepy coastal town, but you can find nerds just about anywhere. I tried to find a .Net User Group down there, thru INETA, but had no luck.
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Microsoft Is Looking For A Few Smart Watch Developers
Microsoft has recently announced that they are looking to contract with a number of developers to create new channels for the Microsoft Smart Watch (aka SPOT Watch). Microsoft will compensate the developer and supply the necessary tools and documentation. The official announcement will not be posted on the web until September 13th, but I asked permission to blog this and received it.
The application can be found here and the program details here.They are on my website until the official Microsoft announcement goes live.The info is now on the MSNDirect site. The deadline to apply is September 27th. -
A Suggestion for the Microsoft Careers Site
I was on the Microsoft Technical Recruiting Chat last night (I’m not really looking, just snooping around), when I remembered a comment made by either Zoë or Gretchen (I can’t remember who, or even find it) about making sure that your resume looked good in plain text when submitting it via their site. They don’t take resumes in Word format (or even HTML), and you can either paste vanilla text into a free form input box, or use the resume builder. They mentioned that as an applicant, you should make sure the plain text version of your resume is easy to read, and not just a Word doc saved as text (which would be very hard on the eyes). At the time I read that, I thought it was a good tidbit, so I filed it away for future reference. During the chat something clicked, and I remembered that Microsoft had released an Office Solution Accelerator for Recruiting, which includes a nice resume builder section. The resume builder includes an InfoPath Resume Form (which uses the HR-XML schema for resumes), and a complementing resume submittal web service. Shouldn’t Microsoft recruiting IT department do a little dogfooding, and be using this? It is definitely better than submitting a text version of a resume, and trying to shred the document. Plus, since it is an XML document, they could easily apply an XSL (either XSLT to WordML or XSL-FO to PDF) and transform the resume into an easy to read format for the recruiters. I know that everyone does not have InfoPath (but it is an excellent tool), so they would have to create an alternate means to creating an XML version of the resume (can we say open source project?), and still maintain the good old text box input method for the less technical folks applying to Microsoft. It sounds to me like there would be a decent return on investment for this type of thing, with Microsoft hiring some 7000 people this year.
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