Professional!

I have been offered, and accepted, a job from Accenture Federal Services, a subsidiary of the global company Accenture. Accenture Federal Services primarily does consulting work for the government, and that's likely what I'll be doing. I'm starting training on Jan 10th in Reston, VA, and once the program's over I'll find a project and be doing something code-related for someone in the DC Area (because of the nature of Accenture's project setup, which I would like to mention is really cool, I don't know in any greater detail what I'll be doing just yet). The training course I'm going through is the Java program, so I'll probably be coding in Java.

My job title is Associate Software Engineer. In six months, it'll be Software Engineer. Pretty sweet, right? I'm excited.

In other news, Merry Christmas! My brother and I both got Zunes this year (from different parents though, weird how that is), and that's enough to prompt me to develop something for the Zune. It doesn't appear to be too different from the other mobile platforms I've developed for (iPhone, Android), and it uses XNA Game Studio (which is to say, C# .NET). I'm thinking I need to tackle the whole "No AIM for the Zune" issue, because that simply won't do for me. After some research, I've decided to use Fluent.TOC, which is a C# .NET implementation of the Talk to OsCar protocol (TOC), seeing as I won't need all the features of the full OSCAR protocol anyway. Keep an eye out for it!