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I had my first "real" day at Microsoft today (the first day is mostly an HR thing). There's still a great deal of stuff to do to really get settled, as anyone who has ever started a developer job knows, but it felt like I actually worked there today....
Trying to wrap your head around leaving an area you've been around for 36 years for a destination and job 2,400 miles away is one of the single most bizarre things that I've encountered in my life. The time between my arrival in Seattle to interview at...
If you haven't seen it (or don't otherwise subscribe to his blog), do check out Hanselman's peek at the new MSDN . My impression is that I'll be working in some subset of this new stuff when I get there next month, so I now have a vested interest. :)
As I mentioned previously , I interviewed in Redmond for a position with Microsoft in the Server & Tools Online group, specifically Community Applications & Services (Codeplex, MSDN forums and other stuff in that area). I got the word Friday that...
I'm coming out this week to Redmond again to visit Microsoft and interview, this time for a developer gig. That last time, I was interviewing for a PM gig that I didn't entirely understand, and the vetting process before coming out was not particularly...
Yet another blog post has hit the airwaves and become all atwitter about Flash and Silverlight, the competition, Adobe vs. Silverlight, etc. While this makes for interesting pundit fodder, I just think that the people observing the situation don't really...
The Twitterworld or (Twittersphere or whatever silly shit someone made up today) was all abuzz about the release of Silverlight 3 today, and I was shocked at how quickly it made the trends and how overwhelmingly it was positive. I kind of knew it was...
I was just thinking back to Mix when I remembered some mention of the ISV program, where a couple hundred bucks a year gets you MSDN and such. The catch is that you have to release some kind "packageable" software. Seriously? Does this make sense from...
It certainly isn't the first time, and some how I doubt it'll be the last. The official ASP.NET site, where I was headed to read more on MVC, is down. And it's not just down, it's down with the generic error page. You know, the one with the notes about...
Like so many other lucky folks, I have the red ring of death. And just in time, I suppose, since the warranty extension ends for me in January. But I have to add my story about interacting with support the way everyone else does, because Microsoft really...
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