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Creativity++

By Nick Hodge | July 23, 2008

Silverlight, Vista Rocks

Microsoft has a fin­an­cial year that matches Australia’s fin­an­cial year: July to June.

Each fin­an­cial year the cards are thrown up into the air, and depend­ing on which tar­ots are on top: the organ­isa­tional entrails are read and the future is fore­told. Or, at least that is what it seems like from deep in the trenches of “indi­vidual con­trib­utor” from “sub­si­di­ary” land (I am quot­ing the management-speak, just incase you think I’ve totally lost the plot)

What does that mean for me?

Thanks to an excel­lent man­ager, Anna Liu, and a very flex­ible organ­isa­tion: I get to change my job a little.

Half what I’ve been doing: web/blogging/on10.net/videos and sun­dry jour­ney­man things for DPE in Australia.

And Half Web Devel­op­ment Evan­gel­ism.

Which is really cool. C#, Iron­Py­thon, Iron­Ruby, Sil­ver­light, Vir­tual Earth, Live Mesh et al: here I come!

Why the change?

Time to become more cre­at­ive, build things. Help oth­ers build their things.

Also a change is as good as a hol­i­day. My syn­apses were start­ing to atrophy.

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8 Responses to “Creativity++”

  1. Andrew Smith Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    Sounds very cool. There’s noth­ing like believ­ing in what you are doing and hav­ing the pas­sion to see it through to excel­lence. Top stuff!

  2. John Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Hey Cool!
    Its an awe­some place to be at the moment Nick, so many inter­est­ing things only lim­ited by your ima­gin­a­tion. Sil­ver­light will enable many ideas to get delivered.

  3. Nick Hodge Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    John, Andrew. Thanks for votes of con­fid­ence. Doing developer stuff has been with me since I first star­ted in this industry. Doing it at Microsoft is bey­ond my wild­est imaginations.

  4. peter riches Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Nick onward and upward. Great to see. you are going to have way too much fun, you will need to share it around a bit?

  5. Mum & Dad Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 11:42 am

    ooo­hhh that sounds pain­ful !! (syn­apses start­ing to atrophy!!)
    Con­grat­u­la­tions!!
    and happy Lego build­ing — Microsoft-style !!

  6. Gavin Heaton Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Change keeps those syn­apses work­ing! Look­ing for­ward to see­ing what Sil­ver­light really can do.

  7. Andrew Smith Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    The more I think about it, the more I have the feel­ing that being able to modify what you do as part of your job in order to keep it inter­est­ing … is pretty much a key indic­ator of suc­cess in life.

    I pity the people stuck in admin land.

    Andrew

  8. 2008 in Review | www.nickhodge.com Says:
    December 31st, 2008 at 9:14 am

    […] A post­ive, mid 2008 change in dir­ec­tion for me at Microsoft […]

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