--- title: (Almost) time for something new... | daily.dev description: A technical consultant announces leaving his employer of seven years, RealDolmen, to join JetBrains as a technical evangelist starting December 10, 2012. He... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/almost-time-for-something-new--k084dsrnb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: (Almost) time for something new... | daily.dev og:description: A technical consultant announces leaving his employer of seven years, RealDolmen, to join JetBrains as a technical evangelist starting December 10, 2012. He... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/almost-time-for-something-new--k084dsrnb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/k084DSrNB.png og:image:alt: (Almost) time for something new... og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # (Almost) time for something new... **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A technical consultant announces leaving his employer of seven years, RealDolmen, to join JetBrains as a technical evangelist starting December 10, 2012. He reflects on the opportunities he had, the decision-making process, and his new role focused on sharing knowledge about .NET, Windows Azure, and PHP through tutorials, demos, and conferences. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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