It’s time for me to stop lurking and start posting on Canadian Developer Connection, the official blog of the Microsoft Canada’s Developer Evangelism team. I posted my first article there today: a quick introduction telling the readers who I am and what I’ll be doing over the next little while.

Of particular note is this paragraph in the article:

I don’t know if you’ve got this feeling, but I do: over the past few years, while Microsoft has continued to deliver its excellent developer tools, the outreach seems to be directed at the decision-makers — the people with the "buy/don’t buy" powers of approval — rather than at those of us who get our hands dirty with the code and make the stuff actually work. I call this the "Fourth-Party Developer Feeling", the sense that although you’re person who has to ultimately use our stuff, you’re not the one getting the love and attention. I think it’s time for that feeling to end.

As for good old Global Nerdy, I’ll still be publishing articles here, just as I did when I worked at Tucows and wrote tech articles for both The Farm and this blog. Right now, I have no formal process for deciding if an article belongs in Developer Connection or Global Nerdy, just a couple of guidelines:

• What does my gut say?
• Very Microsoft-specific? Developer Connection (with a possible cross-post to Global Nerdy).
• General geek culture? Global Nerdy.
• Speaking with my Microsoft hat on? Developer Connection. Speaking with it off? Global Nerdy.
• Really long technical article with lots of example code and diagrams? Global Nerdy, and if it’s specific to Microsoft tech, a link to it from Developer Connection.

Keep an eye on that blog!