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Tuesday, the 16th of Sep 2008
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Last month was my last month as a Yahoo! employee. I was an engineer on the MyBlogLog team, and it was the most enjoyable job I've ever had (no joke). The last year with my team at Yahoo! was great, and I can't think of a single day I didn't enjoy working there.
Yahoo! catches a lot of flack in the media, but anyone who has worked for Yahoo! knows how great the culture is, how enthusiastic, smart and kind the people who work there are. I mean, come on, hackdays? Thats fucking awesome! I got the chance to work on some pretty cool stuff (like the reader roll on the right :)), worked with some great technology, learned a whole hell of a lot from my peers and was able to take part in a couple hackdays (thanks to Ian's ideas).
Make no question about it, they've got a lot of talented individuals under their roof:
Todd Sampson was a great boss to work for who actually knows code, Ian Kennedy always had great ideas, Chris Goffinet is a God damn genius (and will probably succeed in what the sticky note on his monitor says), Steve Ho makes databases his bitch, John Sampson does color syntaxing in his head, Raymund Ramos gave up sleep to ensure our systems were working at 3AM, Mani and Saurabh broke down services like mad men, Robyn who was a fantastic community manager for the time we worked together, and Tilly.. well, words can't really describe how awesome she is-- always thinking of the community and new ideas, plus anyone who says "awesome possum" while being completely cheerful and bubbly every time you speak to them is an invaluable asset.
If anyone is looking for a fantastic job, they're hiring. As for me, I'm now the Manager of Web Development for SunRun Inc. Wish me luck.
ps: oh devel-random, how I'll miss thee.
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Wednesday, the 23rd of Jul 2008
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I've had to switch hosts again, to the person who recommended startlogic.com: eat me.
I've had to contact these people weekly, sometimes more than that, since I've signed up with them. Every single time I will get a cookie cutter response, and the last straw was them telling me my sites are loading fine even though it was taking them up to 20 seconds to dump out a 20K page. Right. Horrible hosting, period. Avoid them like the plague.
On a lighter note, my new host is much faster so everything should be snappier (disregard.me, parcelplotr.com).
Update: how did I miss this.. startlogicsucks.com??
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Friday, the 18th of Jul 2008
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Recently the extension .ME was made public, so during the land rush I happened to grab disregard.me for fun! After a few hours work last night I have a rant website up.
visit disregard.me
Feel free to post any kind of rant you want!
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Thursday, the 5th of Jun 2008
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Update: my new host isn't that reliable, so I made some modifications to my code to compensate for their network issues. Should be much more reliable now.
The pet project yesterday's rant was referring to is something I've been working on in my spare time over a few weekends. I've always been curious as to where my package travels to when it's in the courier's possession, and since map APIs are so well rounded now I decided I should just write up an application to do just that.
parcelplotr.com
At the moment it is very beta, but it does work and supports FedEx tracking numbers. If you want to try it out you can use:
FedEx: 481404010034023
FedEx: 947046906133
I'm going to add more couriers in the future, but I need tracking numbers to test with. So if you have any packages coming your way that aren't FedEx, please, send them to me so I can add more couriers to the service. The goal here is to have one central location to track your packages, regardless of who's carrying it.
Be sure to send me your bugs!
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