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Matt McAlister joins Yahoo! Developer Network
There’s too much going on right now to post anything too lengthy, but suffice it to say that I am absolutely ecstatic that Matt McAlister has joined the Yahoo! Developer Network team. Read Matt’s post for more details.
Matt and I worked together very closely back at InfoWorld — working with Matt was one [...]
Yahoo! Hack Day tip: presenting in 90 seconds or less
Over on the Hack Day blog (feed here), I posted a must-read on presenting at Hack Day: Hack Day tip: demoing your hack in 90 seconds or less, pointing to Matt McAlister’s excellent set of tips on that subject.
Stay tuned to the Hack Day blog (again, here’s the feed) for updates leading up to the [...]
Yahoo! Hack Day: kicking off next Friday 9/29. Sign up!
Planning for the big open Yahoo! Hack Day that I wrote about three weeks ago is well underway, as it should be — we kick off next Friday, September 29 at 5pm, and man, we are EXCITED and have some amazing things in store. If you’re interested in attending, submit your information on the form [...]
Product manager job is filled / LinkedIn becomes essential
For those of you who saw the Product Manager job at the Yahoo! Developer Network that I posted to LinkedIn (and got posted to CrunchBoard by someone), that position has been filled. I’ll announce soon.
Thanks to everyone who contacted me. There were many excellent applicants and I hope to be getting back in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
See you at OSCON
As I posted over at the Yahoo! Developer Network blog, I’ll be at OSCON in Portland along with several other folks from Yahoo — see you there!
IBM does Hack Day
I was pleased to see that the folks over at IBM recently ran their own Hack Day modeled on the ones we’ve been doing at Yahoo! (which had its own inspirations, of course). IBM is still one of the giants of American business — #10 on the Fortune 500 list — so this is [...]