Interesting post at Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life about a trend he’s seen of developers heading from Google to Microsoft, and other companies. It appears that Google hasn’t fully transitioned to the “Big Company” mentality, and its showing.

It is an interesting story either way, and Dare has some good opinions on why the transition might be happening.

My Blog

This is my new blog where I’ll be posting all my thoughts about testing the IronRuby implementation. I’ll also be posting thoughts on testing, language design, language interop, and applying testing theory to a language implementation. 

Me

I’m a new hire at Microsoft, I’ve been working there since April. I’ll also try to post thoughts on working there too. My prior experience with Ruby includes playing with it since mid-2006, and Ruby on Rails programming for Genetree, Inc. I’m not an expert to the level of _why, but I know my way around. At Genetree, we did TDD/BDD using RSpec, which is where I learned about testing. 

I’m a fan of Open Source software, and I’m proud to be part of one of the the first Open Source projects at Microsoft. In the past I’ve made contributions to Rails and RSpec (under the username parcelbrat), and I intend to get involved with them again once I get my head above water at Lake Microsoft ;). 

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I look forward to having conversations with you, and have kept commenting open for that reason. First time moderation is required, but it’s open after that. If you feel the need to contact me privately, you can reach me at jdevilleATmicrosoftDOTcom.

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