After the buzz on slashdot several more reputable news websites published stories about Yahoo! and PHP. Here’s a summary so far of the press coverage: slashdot CNET News.com MSNBC internetnews.com TechWEB I doubt this sort of thing ever makes it into the New York Times, but it’s really novel for me nonetheless. All sorts of […]
Well, I completely ripped off the CSS from Jeremy Zawodny’s blog. Still doesn’t look right, but it’s way better than the MovableType defaults. I’m off to UCLA now to hear a lecture about “Seeing as Statistical Inference” for my CS201 class.
Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo! is a talk I gave at PHPCon2002 in Milbrae, CA on October 25, 2002. press coverage: slashdot – CNET News.com – MSNBC – internetnews.com – TechWEB
The PHP-Yahoo! story got picked up today by CNET News.com. My favorite excerpt: “(Yahoo) is a cheap company. (It) can’t afford to waste engineering resources.” –Michael Radwin, Yahoo engineer I hope I don’t get fired for pointing out that my employer is stingy. 🙂
Quite a buzz at the office today. My Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo! presentation appeared on slashdot, a news website about technology. I hardly ever read slashdot, but I spent all afternoon in total browser-refresh mode. My colleague Jeremy Zawodny wrote about Yahoo! getting Slashdotted.
I spoke at PHPCon 2002 today. My talk was entitled “Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo!”