Archive for December, 2005
Get your flu shots, kids!
I am just now emerging from a flu haze that first registered last Wednesday with a high fever that persisted through Christmas Day. Even after the fever went away, I was left with a cough and a general sense of fatigue that has been difficult to shake even now. Apparently, I’m not the [...]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you and your family celebrate!) Here are a couple of festive photos from my Flickr photostream:
Me on Christmas morning in 1975, at 3 years old — 30 years ago tomorrow
And my dog Jabari, after a trip to the pet store last week to get dog food [...]
Mashup Camp: a cool idea
David Berlind is working on a simple but killer concept for an “unconference” he’s calling “Mashup Camp” (and he’s already got the domain mashupcamp.com, so it’s not just an idle idea):
My goal for Mashup Camp is to do the opposite of what all these other Web 2.0-esque conferences are doing. It won’t be invitation [...]
A coding Christmas
The holidays make me a little reflective, and this year I realized something about my career that really blew my mind — for the first time since 1994, I am not directly responsible for production code or production systems! I can’t recall any particularly ruined holidays in the past (except a vicious DOS attack [...]
I am not the founder of InfoWorld
There’s an article about what we’re doing at Yahoo! in the UK Guardian today that is worth reading (”Search for a fresher taste“), but there’s one thing factually wrong with this sentence (and also one stylistic tweak):
Through a series of hires and acquisitions, Yahoo is clearly assembling a squad of innovators and forward [...]
Corporate blogging panel at Syndicate
(Update: links added as the wi-fi improved)
I’m sitting in on the corporate blogging panel at Syndicate moderated by Charlene Li from Forrester, featuring Jeremy Zawodny (fellow Yahoo! and my cubemate), David Geller (WhatCounts), Greg Renaicker (Newsgator), and Jodi Baumann (Network Appliance — where Dave Hitz has a blog). A few random thoughts on the [...]
Platforms and the rule of three
Back in my old gig, I wrote a feature-length story entitled “Top 20 IT Mistakes” and wrote a followup blog post in which I referenced the excellent Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert Glass, writing:
The book contains 55 facts ranging from the people-specific (”Fact 1: The most important factor in software work is [...]
The efficacy of time-constrained hacking
Friday’s successful “hack day” experience is still fresh on my mind and a couple of blog posts popped up on my radar today that
reflected some of the philosophical underpinnings of our event. A post from David Heinemeier on the 37Signals blog (”Constraints breed breakthrough creativity“) pointed me over to Kathy Sierra’s post entitled [...]
Hack Day at Yahoo!
Yesterday (with the help and support of all kinds of people across Yahoo!), I organized and ran the first “Hack Day” for the Search and Marketplace group (Jeremy does a good job of capturing the day). A few weeks ago, I put together an all-volunteer advisory team to decide how we should structure [...]
Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us!
Yes, it’s true as of a few minutes ago — del.icio.us just joined us at Yahoo! See Yahoo! Search blog and the deli.icio.us blog for the scoop.
Welcome Joshua and team!