I just realized that i forgot to post anything on my blog about this… woops! I left Yahoo Brickhouse in April. I twittered about it, but wasn’t sure what to say in a blog. While at Yahoo i got to do the architecture work and a lot of the development of Yahoo! Fire Eagle. We launched the first rails app at Yahoo and were the first to release a working OAuth implementation. Working with Brickhouse was amazing, a great group of people who worked incredibly hard to release an amazing product.
Working with, or rather for Yahoo, was not so great. It was a constant painful struggle. Maybe at some point i’ll sit down and write about the relationship the reform movement part of yahoo had with the mothership. While i tried to make things better, i’m not sure that improving the quality of a fortune 500 company is really my cup of tea.
I have looked at a number of options since leaving Yahoo, and decided to spend some time coding along side the amazing geeks at entp.com. One time at a foocamp i heard somebody say, “find the smartest group of people you can and work with them.” Entp makes Lighthouse a ticket tracking system that rails itself uses, and a few other apps.
Moving to a small agile company is a breath of fresh air. Instead of we need to have a meeting about it, my questions get answered with, “sounds good, pdi”. Instead of being told that subversion is on the timeline for 2 years from now, everybody’s using git.
In addition to working with entp i’m also doing some work as an adviser to mapufacture, change.org, and others helping them with scaling, architecture and tech strategy.
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