It dawned on me recently that I’ve only got about 2 weeks before my One Year of PHP at Yahoo! talk at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland. Here’s the section title slide for one of the parts of my talk: I like talks that have lots of graphics, even if they’re a little […]
If you’re a Unix geek, you know about /usr/games/fortune. If you know much about Yahoo!, you know that we like to name our software things that start with “y”. For example, my Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo! talk mentions our legacy yScript language. Today, a rather clever co-worker of mine suggested a list […]
The cover story of the June 2, 2003 edition of BusinessWeek is entitled Yahoo! Act Two. As an insider, the article seems pretty accurate to me. It does a pretty good job explaining what’s changed about the corporate culture since Semel came on board. Our stock price is up almost 70% since the day he […]
Today is Yahoo! Mail Dump the Junk Day in the United Kingdom. If you’ve got a friend or colleague who bombards you with joke emails and “wacky” attachments, nominate them for the The Dump the Junk Award. Apparently, you’ve gotta be a Brit to enter the contest.
Ask Yahoo!, a daily column that features Q&A with Yahoo!’s expert team of Surfers, is officially syndicating its content via RSS. As reported here back in April, RSS support for Ask Yahoo! had previously been available as a Beta release only. This week, Ask Yahoo! marks five wonderful, question-filled years. To celebrate this momentous occasion, […]
At lunch today we were talking about trademarks and whether Yahoo! is a brand name or a generic term. Since it’s used in Chapter 1 of Gulliver’s Travels, it clearly pre-dates the web company. And the first use with an exclamation point probably comes from the Erasure song which was released in 1988 on The […]
Someone at work today mentioned the problem of capturing “Tribal Knowledge” in an electronic format and making it easily accessible to new or remote employees. When some new engineer joins Yahoo!, how are they supposed to know that they should build a website using Apache and PHP on FreeBSD? How do they know to use […]
Ask Yahoo!, a daily column that features Q&A with Yahoo!’s expert team of Surfers, is now syndicating its content via RSS. Here’s the link to the RSS file: [Update: the XML now validates correctly.]
Launched today: “More Needle. Less Haystack. The New Yahoo! Search.” The new logo looks an awful lot like the Yahoo! Personals logo.
I mentioned yesterday that Yahoo! is hiring engineers. One of my open reqs just hit the join.yahoo.com site. Our recruiter just sent me 7 resumes of potential candidates in the last 20 minutes! I guess this is why they say that it’s close to impossible to be a manager and still have time to write […]