Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.
Cloud Developer Advocate

  Redmond, WA, USA

My book:
Xamarin In Action

Contact me:
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  YouTube
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  CV

Getting an internship at Microsoft

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Come as you are, do what you loveI've been asked a few times for thoughts and tips around getting an internship at Microsoft. So in the spirit of "I didn't have time to reply to you so I wrote this blog post", I thought I'd provide a stack of resources useful to folks wanting to know more about the process. ApplicationInterested in an internship he…

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The Jim and Tonic show

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Since starting at Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate I've been hugely privileged surrounded on a daily basis by some of the most awesome people across a wide range of developer communities - the rest of the Cloud Developer Advocacy team. These are engineers who constantly work to make the world amazing for developers across a wide range…

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Blind technology

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Busy, busy, busy. In the last month I've relocated form Thailand to the UK with my family, got my UK company up and running (more coming on this in a later post), lined up one client, fought with the Apple app store to get my developer account set up right so I can sell apps (still not done), found a new place to live and been fighting with overbe…

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Getting an internship at Microsoft

Featured Jim Bennett microsoft, internship

Come as you are, do what you loveI've been asked a few times for thoughts and tips around getting an internship at Microsoft. So in the spirit of "I didn't have time to reply to you so I wrote this blog post", I thought I'd provide a stack of resources useful to folks wanting to know more about the process. ApplicationInterested in an internship he…

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The Jim and Tonic show

Featured Jim Bennett technology, microsoft, jim and tonic, podcast, cda

Since starting at Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate I've been hugely privileged surrounded on a daily basis by some of the most awesome people across a wide range of developer communities - the rest of the Cloud Developer Advocacy team. These are engineers who constantly work to make the world amazing for developers across a wide range…

Read More

Blind technology

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, technology, binaural, microsoft, blind, navigation

Busy, busy, busy. In the last month I've relocated form Thailand to the UK with my family, got my UK company up and running (more coming on this in a later post), lined up one client, fought with the Apple app store to get my developer account set up right so I can sell apps (still not done), found a new place to live and been fighting with overbe…

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