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Back in Black - Returning to Platform Evangelism at Adobe
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I am very excited to return to the Platform Evangelism team at Adobe to pursue my passion of writing and exploring the world of software development.
I started writing software at age 9 on an Apple II+ at our neighbors house in Houston, Texas and if it hadn't been for my grandfather buying me an Apple IIE, I might have moved into our neighbors house. I love software, I love writing it, learning new things about it, and I especially love sharing what I learn about it with others. It is an interesting time to return to evangelism as the Flash Platform is in the midst of a very large transition. We are in the middle of Flex 4 development, progress on Catalyst, Mobile runtimes, and Flash Collaboration Services are full steam ahead. In the overall market, RIA purpose driven apps are going mainstream vs traditional browser based apps. I don't go to Twitter.com, I use Destroy Twitter; I don't go to Facebook.com, rather I have an app for that on my phone; and services/apis are appearing for just about everything. Times have changed.
For the last 12 months I have worked on the community team at Adobe focused on growing our designer and developer ecosystem through our community leaders and Adobe User Groups. The community has grown dramatically over the past year and I want to thank each and every community leader who made that growth possible. Although our work is far from complete, I know that the passionate leadership within the community merged with new team leadership under Rachel Luxemburg (New Team Leader) & Ben Forta (Evangelism Honcho) can only result in a world class program for Adobe in the years ahead. Long story short community is in great hands. The year of management experience has been eye opening for me as I had to learn a very different toolset, and honestly, I could not have asked for a better team.
During my time on the community team I started writing software in my spare time. I would stay up late to writing code and learn new platforms. I certainly didn't see it initially but after my wife Linda mentioned it, I really needed to make writing and exploring software my full time job. So today I am headed back to the Evangelism team to pursue that passion.
I was chatting with Ryan Stewart today on IM and this chat sums up my feeling well:
12:00:56 PM Ted Patrick: tis humbling to return to evangelism
12:01:00 PM Ryan Stewart: hahah
12:01:02 PM Ryan Stewart: why?
12:01:06 PM Ryan Stewart: you were the Flex evangelist king!
12:01:12 PM Ryan Stewart: now you're back in black
12:01:24 PM Ted Patrick: oh just after all the projects
12:01:34 PM Ted Patrick: and management
12:01:45 PM Ted Patrick: It is nice to return to code
Well I am not sure about "Flex evangelist king", yikes, but I am very happy to be back. It is an amazing team and there is no better job for someone that loves software development.
Cheers,
Ted :)
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Ryan is right. You were an awesome Flex evangelist, and I don't doubt you'll do as well or better now that you're at it again.
Thanks Josh! Looking forward to seeing more of your gaming apps, they rock.
I still remember the starry eyed n00b Flex evangelist I met at a Silvafug meeting in the summer of 2006. He was very passionate about getting into the community and making things happen. He was so excited that he joined forces with me and another friend (John Wilker) to do the first ever all Flex conference, that we named 360|Flex since it would cover Flex from all angles.
An Adobe employee (I won't mention who) once said, "Ted's blog has more reach and influence than Adobe.com sometimes when it comes to Flex." It'll be nice to see your blog return to it's coding roots and be that resource that many had come to love.
Welcome back, brotha. What was your favorite saying, "Lead with grenades!" I can already hear some pins being pulled. LOL
Finally Ted!! We kinda miss u, Im soooo glad! And yes Ryan said it all! Congrats! (Thanks Linda and Adobe)
There goes the neighborhood! :) Welcome back. This is where you meant to be. Born to evangelize.
You know I never realized that you left the evangelism team at Adobe. You've always been out there pushing the technologies. You've definitely got the passion man. Welcome back!
Sounds like a more fun job--congrats. As if you need a title to actually evangelize for Adobe.
I'm sure you'll do great again.
Whoa! Adobe still offers something called Flex! You see, your return to a Flex evangelist role is already working to put Flex back in the minds of developers!
Just kidding, of course.
As awesome as Flex is, you working to promote it again can only mean a bigger, more involved community, which translates to an even better product!
Great news!!! Get Flex back on track!
All hail the King!
I remember when you where blogging about all new features in Flex 3 in a week, I broke my keyboard pushing F5 on my lap just to see whats new. I hope that heppens again.
Welcome back !
Welcome back, we really missed you. Great to see new posts...
I hope to get back to things, but it's (management and all that) gonna hold me for some more time.
-abdul