Archive for August, 2006
Yahoo! Hack Day: opening up Yahoo! itself
Ever since I organized the first Hack Day at Yahoo, people have been saying, “wouldn’t it be cool if you opened it up?” Guess what? That’s exactly what we’re doing — opening Yahoo! itself up, and in a big way. I’ve been to and helped organize internal Yahoo! Hack Days on three [...]
Collecting software methodologies
I’ve always enjoyed reading about software development methodologies and approaches (my favorite essay is Frederick Brooks’ “No Silver Bullet“), probably less because I love software and more because it’s interesting to see how people, who are inherently fallible, translate their hopes and desires into instructions for an inanimate machine. When you mix the innate [...]
One year anniversary at Yahoo!
Today is my one-year anniversary at Yahoo! I could write a really long post looking back at my first year at Yahoo!, but suffice it to say that I like the people I work with, the work continues to be challenging in a good way, my management rocks, and we’re in a competitive [...]
15 web sites that changed the world: Salon
It seems fitting that I was just thinking about Salon since I noticed the Guardian picked it as one of the 15 “Websites that changed the world.” It’s right there at #11, in the same list with eBay, Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Craigslist, and many others you know well. Very cool.
Sex and Linux at Salon in 1999
I got a nice surprise in my inbox recently from Kent Brewster, one of my compatriots at YDN, when he saw the plea on my home page for a copy of my long-lost presentation at 1999 OSCON, Sex and Linux at Salon, which I did along with Jeffrey Radice, my partner. I knew it [...]
Splicing in my del.icio.us feed
As of today, I’m splicing my del.icio.us feed into the RSS feed for this blog (Feedburner makes it really easy — not sure why I’ve waited two years to do it). I don’t blog every day, but I do bookmark a lot of things during the week. Enjoy.
Spam monkeys on the existential typewriter of my mind
I decided to do some long overdue cleaning of my spam folder (which is teeming with 11,000 messages — need to set up the auto-delete on old spam) and I was quickly scanning the names of senders to make sure no one I cared about got caught in the trap, when the name of my [...]
Wikipedia as Unix man page
Lately, I’m finding an unanticipated (but not entirely surprising) use of Wikipedia as richer extended versions of Unix man pages. Who needs man man when you have Manual page (Unix)? I came to this conclusion when I was looking at the wget man page in my terminal last night and I kept having [...]
Python developer center launch at YDN
In these times of snakes on planes, it seems fitting that we launched the Python Developer Center today on the Yahoo! Developer Network. The Python Developer Center was put together by Simon Willison (Simon also posted on the YDN blog).
This is timely for me, because like Jeremy, I’m beginning to learn Python after [...]
We’re hiring for the YDN Bangalore team
In addition to the Yahoo! Developer Network team at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, California, we also have a small team of developers in our Bangalore, India office who work with us on our core projects. I visited Bangalore in April for their Hack Day before I was directly involved with YDN, and I was [...]