I’ve read recent reports that unemployment in Silicon Valley is at 8 percent. Sounds pretty dismal. But it looks like Yahoo! is starting to hire again. If you search our database, you’ll see approximately 40 engineering headcount. I didn’t check other positions, but I think the rest of the company is growing, too. And Google, […]
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OSCon2003 presentation details
Here are details about my upcoming talk at the O’Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2003: Session ID: 4062 Title: One Year of PHP at Yahoo! Date: 07/09/2003 Time: 11:30am to 12:15pm Location: Salon D Unfortunately, I won’t be at PHPCon East 2003 this April. [Update 8 July 2003: Slides for the talk are now available […]
Free Bagel Fridays
I’ve been working in the Yahoo! Santa Monica office for about a month now, and I’m still really enjoying it. Today, like all Fridays, is a Free Bagel Day. In the kitchen are dozens of bagels and about 6 different kinds of cream cheese. Reminds me of the Free Bagel Tuesdays we used to have […]
Code re-organization
I just spent the better part of the day shuffling some C++ code around in our CVS tree, and then trying to make sure it builds properly from its new location. I didn’t add any code, just moved it to a new place. And it took me 8 hours to get the thing working again. […]
One Year of PHP at Yahoo!
I will be speaking at the O’Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2003 this summer in Portland, Oregon. The title of my 45-minute session is One Year of PHP at Yahoo! The conference runs from July 7-11. Registration begins in April. [Update 8 July 2003: Slides for the talk are now available online.]
New Business Cards
My new business cards arrived today. Dude. Sweet.
My office in Santa Monica
Today is my first day at the Yahoo! Launch office in Santa Monica. After two years of working by myself in a home office, it is a thrill to be in a real office environment again. Even though it’s my job to be a computer geek, I supsect that I’m really a “people” person. Many […]
Upgrade my servers? Yeah, right.
In software engineering, laziness is a positive attribute. If one can accomplish the same task in 3 lines of code instead of 30, a good engineer opts for the 3-line version. That’s why libraries of code are so popular. Engineers are also risk-averse. Every change you make to the system can possibly de-stabilize it, so […]
Happy Birthday from My Yahoo!
Marc Hedlund: Swearing Off (and at) My Yahoo My take: Mr. Grumpy-pants isn’t too happy about being a year older. Mikel’s take: “You shouldn’t be using your computer on your birthday anyway.”
Compaq Evo Notebook N610c
The Yahoo! IS department delivered a Compaq Evo N610c laptop to my desk today. My almost-3-year-old IBM Thinkpad 390X has been sent off to the place where All Good Laptops Go To Die. I had been schlepping the IBM 390X from LAX to SJC pretty much every week since fall of 2002. About 6 months […]