My roadblock of one – now also blogging for Ajaxian and Yahoo Developer Network

Today was a great day: I finally got my Macbook Pro to work with, got myself one of those fancy new slick keyboards and went for it answering a lot of emails. It is amazing how many more emails you can answer when you don’t have to wait for virus scans in the background and Outlook to get a move on.

Not only did I get some good leeway on what I am going to do this year (amongst other things a trip to Beijing to talk to developers about best practices and going back to Germany to talk to Flash developers), I also finally got some other answers I have been waiting for.

To cut it short, I am now not only sneakily blogging for the Yahoo Developer Network blog but was asked to contribute more often. What is even more surprising (considering my history of snide comments there) is that I am now also blogging on Ajaxian.

So if you have some good JavaScript/Ajax or general web development stuff that needs coverage, please drop me a line. I am available here (either via comment or email), on twitter or pownce.

I love the idea of being able to reach a lot of readers and developers through very successful and large channels and it shows me once again how powerful the web is as a media. When I worked as a radio journalist, this wouldn’t have been possible as everything I did had to be connected to my employer exclusively :)

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http://cyril.doussin.name Cyril Doussin

Congrats!

The only downside I see to this is that if there is good stuff done by Yahoo! people and you post on this at Ajaxian you’ll surely get blamed for it by some people. But yeah… if they can’t see value in knowledge sharing then screw them…
Chris

@cyril, yeah, but that does already happen. Dion also works for Google so I guess people do the same when Ajaxian comments about Google stuff. Maybe I will wear nosegoggles and speak in a funny accent when I post things done in Yahoo!
Rey Bango

@Chris: Welcome aboard. Great to have you as part of the team.

@Cyril: It won’t be an issue. We post what we want and what we feel is important. I’m part of the jQuery and Ext teams and getting called out doesn’t phase me at all. I do a lot of posting for all of the major libs so I think people have started to ease up on that.