Category: Yahoo!

There’s a mean, lean version of the Yahoo! homepage. If you pull up search.yahoo.com in a web browser, you’ll get a bare-bones page with no ads. It’s even got the nifty little trick to put the cursor in the search box. The total page weight (HTML + Images + JavaScript) comes in at 10.3K, which […]

I’m in the SF Bay Area this week for work and I’m really busy. I don’t even have time to write anything amusing for my blog. Now that I’m officially a pointy-haired (in the Dilbert sense) manager-type, there are lots of meetings. Some intersting new projects are on the plate for the coming year. Speaking […]

Someone at work volunteered to port and maintain our proprietary package-management tool to Solaris. All twelve thousand uncommented lines of it. Good luck. I’m sure someone is going to notice, and they’ll want to spend the next 3 months of their time doing a Linux port, too. It seems to me like it would be […]

Home pages are dead. Yahoo! GeoCities should re-invent itself as a blog site. Fresh content is better than stale content, and blog authors have an incentive to keep their blogs up-to-date.

In a not-so-surprising turn of events, Yahoo! is buying Inktomi for $235M. There has been a lot of discussion both outside and inside the company about search engine competitor Google, so clearly Yahoo! is doing this to stay competitive in the search space. Whereas Yahoo! has something like 74 different properties in 25 countries, Google […]

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 […]

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!”