{"id":84,"date":"2008-06-05T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2008\/06\/05\/Member+Of+The+Academy"},"modified":"2008-06-05T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T18:03:02","slug":"member-of-the-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/05\/member-of-the-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Member of the Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MemberoftheAcademy_A976\/JBAcademy_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"105\" alt=\"JBAcademy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MemberoftheAcademy_A976\/JBAcademy_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"><\/a>I&#8217;d like to thank the Academy&#8230; No, I haven&#8217;t won best-supporting actor for my portrayal of a mild-mannered .NET developer in some smash blockbuster. (At least not yet.) I&#8217;ve been accepted as a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/devnet\/\">JetBrains Academy<\/a>. What is it all about? The Academy&#8217;s mission statement says it best:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The JetBrains Development Academy fosters a community of experts and evangelists to champion best development practices and promote software innovation worldwide. The Academy serves as a connection point for developers who strive to adopt top methodologies and use JetBrains products to help them achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find my Academy profile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/devnet\/whos\/James_Kovacs.html\">here<\/a>. (No, I didn&#8217;t write it, though I am flattered.) The profile fits with the general tone of the Academy, as can be seen by reading the profiles of my good friends, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/devnet\/whos\/Donald_Belcham.html\">Donald Belcham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/devnet\/whos\/Jean_Paul_Boodhoo.html\">JP Boodhoo<\/a>. I wish I could be &#8220;as mellow, smooth, and intoxicating as [Donald&#8217;s] favorite single malt scotch&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to thank the Academy&#8230; No, I haven&#8217;t won best-supporting actor for my portrayal of a mild-mannered .NET developer in some smash blockbuster. (At least not yet.) I&#8217;ve been accepted as a member of the JetBrains Academy. What is it all about? The Academy&#8217;s mission statement says it best: The JetBrains Development Academy fosters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}