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What is Dan doing?

posted on Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:36 AM by mcfunley

Hey, by the way, the last post is likely to be my last Windows-oriented post for the forseeable future. I have recently quit the financial sector and will be starting a fantastically cool new job here in a few weeks. I no longer have a Windows machine at home at all, so unless I take up Mono, expect a lot of posts that mention emacs from now on. I think this will be for the best, since I've been kind of bored and nonplussed with .NET stuff lately, F# notwithstanding.

Giving up on Microsoft development entirely was a little bittersweet until someone showed me XMLScript a week or two ago--clearly, a lot of people in that world are out of their god damned minds. Best of luck writing xhtml-serving web applications defined in xml markup with client script written declaratively in more xml, also exposing xml web services to rich client applications defined largely in XAML, updated automatically as defined in xml configuration files, to those of you lucky enough to get to do this.

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# re: What is Dan doing? @ Saturday, September 01, 2007 10:12 PM

Congrats on the new job! Aly is a big fan of Etsy. When do you start?

  Jordan

# re: What is Dan doing? @ Saturday, September 01, 2007 10:59 PM

Congrats! I also wish I could start using more non MS technologies soon :-) Though I doubt that will happen in the near future.

In the meantime I did stop using Windows at home for almost 2 years now and on weekends try to do things with whatever technology stack I feel like including PHP and Python (I don't know why I don't really like Ruby, perhaps because everyone so hyped about it :-) ).

Anyhow, good luck and maybe we can do something to integrate Etsy (http://etsy.com) with Yedda (http://yedda.com) ;-)

  Eran Sandler

# re: What is Dan doing? @ Sunday, September 02, 2007 7:32 AM

Thanks a lot, guys. Starting the last week of September. Pretty excited about it.

Eran--sounds like I'll be doing a lot of Python, too. Which I'm happy about, since it's practical and doesn't suck!

  Dan McKinley

# re: What is Dan doing? @ Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:10 AM

Another congrats - looks like a fun place. I have friends who watch that site like hawks, so I guess they're doing something right. What's your new position there?

Also, at my new job, I have written more [probably horrendous] C# code than T-SQL. It's very strange.

  Ira Pfeifer

# re: What is Dan doing? @ Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:54 AM

Hey dude, congrats on your new job. I haven't heard from any of you lately. Actually wrote to Neil the other day, hmm well I responded his email.

Are you coming down to Brazil? What's the new job going to be like?

Anyways, I happy for you. Send me an email or maybe I will just pop in on IM.

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  Michel

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