{"id":283,"date":"2011-03-09T10:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-03-09T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:19:39","slug":"one-year-of-lync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/one-year-of-lync\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year of Lync"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to post this a few days ago, but I just passed my one-year anniversary on the Lync (formerly Office Communicator) team. I enjoyed my time in the engineering excellence team at Microsoft, but I didn&#8217;t realize how much I missed being part of a software team until, well &#8211; a year or so ago. I&#8217;m having a great time and can&#8217;t believe what great people and technologies I get to work with.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know what Lync is, it&#8217;s a communications and collaboration platform (IM, Voip, desktop \/ application sharing, etc.). Here are some videos you can check out if you want to more info (warning \u2013 they may be a *little* cheesy)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 504px; height: 301px\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RVQApxN3Tu4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 504px; height: 334px\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yJCCZxa97Og\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 503px; height: 280px\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DcmBWd_u2Ok\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in the early stages of our next release now &#8211; it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve been part of this process for over eight years (that&#8217;s half of my career at Microsoft). Although many things are the same, it&#8217;s also fun to have a different set of ideas to try and experiment with as we get ready to build the next generation of a fantastic unified communications platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to post this a few days ago, but I just passed my one-year anniversary on the Lync (formerly Office Communicator) team. I enjoyed my time in the engineering excellence team at Microsoft, but I didn&#8217;t realize how much I missed being part of a software team until, well &#8211; a year or so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}