Big Changes
The blog’s been pretty quiet lately for good reason — I simply haven’t had a spare second to post anything. I have quite a few interesting posts in the wings just waiting for a last bit of polishing.
Why so busy? Well, since the end of November I applied for, interviewed for, was offered, and accepted a job at Microsoft 
As a consequence, I’ve been extremely busy getting ready for and making the cross-country move from Columbus, OH to Redmond, WA. Needless to say, it was a very exciting and nerve-wracking last few weeks.
I started as a SDE (software development engineer) in the Health Solutions Group last Monday. I’m still learning the ropes and certainly relate to the feeling of “drinking from the fire hose“. Today was a “momentous” occasion as I submitted my first bugfix, only to quickly discover the need to submit a bugfix for my bugfix. It’s quite humbling being completely surrounded by veritable developer rockstars.
Despite all of the stress, I am absolutely and totally pumped to be here — my project is awesome and the people I work with are awesome — there are very exciting times ahead
Hopefully as things start to settle down I’ll get some time to braindump about all of the cool things going on.
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February 5th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Hi Matt,
I wish you the best at Microsoft! It must be an inspiring environment. Good luck!
February 6th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Congratulations! So it sounds like you have already completed the move? If so, you should come to Seattle alt.net on Saturday. Matt Podwysocki is in town for tech ready, and Justin and I will both be there. Also, there is the “World-Wide” alt.net conference at the end of the month, if you are interested in that.