Time to move on
Allow me to be a bit narcistic for a moment – don’t worry it does not involve a podcast of me talking about web design stuff:
I just wanted to announce that I am quitting my current job on the 14th of April and from the 24th of April (2 days before my birthday) onwards I will work for Yahoo UK as a web developer.
I am quite happy to join a company that dabbles in the same market sizes I worked in the last few years but really does subscribe to ideals like web standards and User Centric Design. To illustrate my dedication to this cause it might be of interest that I took a slight paycut and will not have the fancy “Lead Developer” title any longer. I think having fun and getting satisfaction out of what you do is more important anyways.
March 15th, 2006 at 10:39 am
Congrats, pal !!
March 15th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Besides, Yahoo! has a cachet that, I think, makes up for not having the title of “Lead Developer”. A hearty congratulations (from an envious guy)!
PS: If I press shift+any-non-alphanumeric character, or even just the “-”, I get your MapSurface window. Makes it difficult to type congratulatory letters with lots of !!! :)
March 15th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Michael what browser are you on??? This is an interesting bug.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Well done! Yahoo would definitely be a company I’d like to work for at some point, their attitude towards web standards and scripting is one that a lot more big companies should follow.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Nice one Chris! Still waiting for that Yahoo! or Google email ;)
March 15th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
This is most definitely well deserved. Congratulations!
PS: About Michael Hessling’s bug, he might be on Opera/Win. I am and I have a similar bug: When I press DEL (the one next to End, below Insert) it opens Map Surface. Opera 8.53 on Win XP (French).
PPS: and it freezes the page.
March 15th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Congratulations! My wish is to be a developer elsewhere too… nowadays I work @ IBM (ibm.com, Global Production Services Latin America team) and I’m studying about Yahoo as well. Maybe we cross the paths!
Good luck! ;)
March 15th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Congratulations!
March 17th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Congratulations! :-)))
It doesn’t matter if it says “lead” or simply “web developer”, the most important thing is to have fun! :-)))
Good luck! :)