Except that it is your job to evangelize Microsoft products to us, and it's pretty clear that this thread is part of that. If you really are "new to the MSFT stack", what the fuck have you done at your job for the last year?
I've dealt with a Microsoft "evangelist" guy before in academia, promoting their "Shared Source" initiatives trying to convince professors to teach NT internals in OS courses. At least he was straightforward with his trolling, and entertainingly churlish.
Your whole deal just seems sort of pathetic. You don't have a clue about JS, CSS, or SQL? You've been paid to promote a "stack" for a year and you just tried it out for the first time a week ago and are posting about it in multiple places on the web?
You're ("pulling some marketing bullshit" ∪ "an idiot").
I don't work in DPE (Developer & Platform Evangelism). I work in product management (marketing). I have decent tech skills, but over the last year, my group was focused on launching our Azure Services Platform. The bulk of that work was about positioning, partners, brand, pricing, features, etc. Not a ton of time for actually using the platform. A new year resolution was that I wanted to spend my free hcaking time in ASP.NET. It's all up on my blog, out in the open. I'm not trying to hide anything from anyone, and I apologize againg to the community if it came across that way.
The marketing for Azure makes more sense in light of you not having used any of the stuff you were promoting.
Nowhere do you mention any of your competitors, much less compare yourself to them. None of the "tracks" [Web Developers, Corporate Developers, ISVs, Systems Integrators, Business] had anything pertinent, and none of it was remotely useful to anyone to whom cloud computing was more than the cover story of the latest IT Drone Monthly. The copy is littered with grating faux pas, like: "multiple internet protocols, including HTTP, REST, SOAP, and XML".
Wow. People can be really mean. After almost three hundred skydives, I posted to an online community that I had been a part of for several years that I was quitting for various reasons (the least of which was that I wasn't even close to being coordinated enough to continue to pull it off). I was attacked almost instantaneously by various members of the site. Some saw it as me vying for attention. Others insisted I'd be back. Others still simply called me names. That was four year ago. I haven't jumped again since. I haven't posted again since. It is incredible in a society that has such a high tolerance for social malfeasance, one has such a conniption simply because of a small omittance. Seriously, have a drink. There are two pointless wars going on, there are starving people and people with no place to live... and pandemics like AIDS infiltrating the globe. If Brandon was willing to concede he didn't know PHP, SQL or JavaScript, perhaps he was actually being honest about everything else, too. He could have lied. He didn't. Chill out. Jesus.
I've dealt with a Microsoft "evangelist" guy before in academia, promoting their "Shared Source" initiatives trying to convince professors to teach NT internals in OS courses. At least he was straightforward with his trolling, and entertainingly churlish.
Your whole deal just seems sort of pathetic. You don't have a clue about JS, CSS, or SQL? You've been paid to promote a "stack" for a year and you just tried it out for the first time a week ago and are posting about it in multiple places on the web?
You're ("pulling some marketing bullshit" ∪ "an idiot").