I, Clint Rutkas, has finally aquired enough skills and knowledge to sell-out. I mean, ummm, ... the fanboy becomes an employee? Yeah, that works, yes ... exactly.

I've accepted a position at Microsoft in the DPE (Developer Platform Evangelism) group as an ADE (Academic Developer Evangelism) and I started today. I'll be stationed out of St. Louis and will be helping our the heartland of America.

So how this happened? No I didn't sell my soul or body (but my body is for sale, any takers ladies?), I just got lucky. I was chatting with some of the ADE's at Maker Faire when I was showing off Drunktender and they found out who my c# teacher was over at DePaul University. It was their boss who is my boss also. They informed me about an open spot and I tried to get it. After something like 7 phone interviews, 3 in-person interviews, and 1 presentation, I got the job. I'll miss some of the guys over at SpringCM but I do believe this is the right move for me. They all took it great and understood my reasoning. Got a great going away party and one of the best cards ever since it said "Starting Saturday, anything wrong will be blamed on you".

So how does this effect Better Than Everyone? Hopefully it won't. I'll still post under the "Will I get fired if I say that?" mentality and keep it heavy tech, what projects I'm working on, and being sarcastic / making crappy jokes. Drunktender v2 is coming along and Project Hoverboard is forming nicely too. I'll continue to post source code over at Peace Love Code but chances are some of the source code may shift to CodePlex.

I'll post some pictures later on when I get settled in ssince I don't have a USB Mini cord with me to grab the pictures from my camera.