Microsoft has hired Ani Babaian, from the Denver area, to be the D.E. for the Rocky Mountain region. What this means is that the most important and personal contact-- on the level of mentor, advisor and technical expert -- that the general developer community will have at Microsoft will be a chick. And that's really cool! Why do I think it is cool? Because most developers are not used to seeing women developers in these types of roles. For the most part, the public, technical face of Microsoft [read more...]

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