I didn’t write about it before, not wanting to jinx it, but a couple months ago, I interviewed with Microsoft, and was offered a position as the Academic Developer Evangelist for Northern California. I’m on my third day today, and I’m finally at the point where I can actually start doing work rather than spending my time filling out paperwork and getting set up, though I still have plenty of that to do. My position as an ADE is great in that I’m given a chance to get students and faculty excited in the Microsoft Platform. One of the ways that I can do this is by giving presentations to students about Visual Studio, XNA, PopFly, or just about anything I’m interested in, and feel that they would be interested in. I also have the ability to write code of my own and post it online, or make up videos or screencasts. I’m looking into getting some video equipment to record some of the sessions I attend, and to make some videos of my own. One of these events is the Silicon Valley Code Camp, which I hope to be able to present at this time around.