{"id":123,"date":"2007-04-26T15:55:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsholmes31.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/26\/the-end-of-an-era"},"modified":"2007-04-26T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T22:55:41","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After something like 5 years on the MSN (now Windows Live) Messenger Team, I’m moving to a new role at Microsoft. Messenger is one of my favorite products in the world, the team is absolutely great to work with, and we’re working on what I think is our most exciting release ever<\/strong>, \u00a0<\/strong>but an opportunity came up that was just too good to ignore.<\/p>\n

Starting next week, I’m taking a job as a (Software) Architect reporting to Joshua Goodman<\/a>, who is BillG’s Technical Assistant and reports directly to the man himself.<\/p>\n

Yeah. It’s pretty freaking sweet. I’m extremely excited. I’ll be working on all kinds of things across the whole company. It’s going to be an amazing period of learning and I hope\u00a0to contribute to some wicked hot new stuff that will amaze and delight our customers. I can’t talk about anything publicly, but it’s some software that I for one would love<\/em> to use.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m starting the new job off this Sunday by heading to Vegas to attend MIX07<\/a>. I’ve worked a ton on clients, a ton on peer-to-peer apps, a bit on servers, but basically none on web apps, so I need to ramp up quickly there.<\/p>\n

w00t!!!~!1!!!~one!~@~~!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After something like 5 years on the MSN (now Windows Live) Messenger Team, I’m moving to a new role at Microsoft. 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