It’s not every day you write this sort of blog post. And you hope it’s not something you do so often that you ever get good at it. I’m certainly sucking up a storm here. Just last month I hit my four year mark at Microsoft. I reflected on the sheer joy I experienced working with such smart people on cool projects. I’ve been very lucky and fortunate to be able to speak about these projects at many conferences, meeting so many interesting attendees. It’s been a real blast. Today, I write a different sort of post. It...
A colleague of mine from the Data and Modeling Group mentioned that they have a new senior developer position open working on their new datajs project. This developer would be responsible for defining how modern web and mobile applications use and interact with data on JavaScript platforms. We deal with and work on defining a number of standards including HTML5’s IndexedDB and OData, as well as provide a new set of end-to-end experiences for accessing, managing, and storing data in JS. What’s interesting to me is that datajs appears to be an open source project under the MIT...
It was only two and a half months ago when I wrote about receiving my Microsoft MVP award. I was quite honored to receive this award. In a follow-up comment to that post, rich with unintentional foreshadowing, I mentioned the following... However, I would like to hit up that MVP conference in Redmond before doing anything to cause my MVP status to be dropped. Unfortunately, I will not be retaining my MVP status long enough for the MVP conference. I have committed an action that has forced Microsoft’s hand in this matter and they must remove my MVP status....