In April I joined DataStax as a director of engineering on the DataStax Enterprise engineering team. I meant to post something here during my first week, but have been kind of busy since I started (understatement!). We sell an enterprise-class version of the open-source Cassandra database, along with service, support, and training. We also support the Cassandra community and the open-source project itself (the Apache Cassandra committee chair and many committers are all DataStax employees). My first five week have been both busy and exciting. Here are some observations and highlights so far: It’s great to work for a smaller…
Reminiscing about the good old days at Yahoo, I’m enjoying watching again the “Hackumentary” movie that Ricky Montalvo made for the 2008 Open Hack day at Yahoo. Read on for links to all 4 videos.
This is an update to my 2010 article about removing yourself from Spoke. Since that time, the original Spoke service split into two variants: www.Spoke.com and Center.Spoke.com. The directions for removing yourself have changed slightly, and here are the details…
Now that I’m working at Citrix Online, I’m coming up to speed on the ways in which our collaboration products like GoToMeeting are being used. One of the interesting outreach efforts is workshifting.com, based on a new term workshifting: If you work out of coffee shops, hotels, airports and your home every bit as much as the office, workshifting.com is for you. We share resources on telecommuting, online tools, travel, technology, business & virtual offices to help you shift when, where & how you work. If you want to follow along with the latest, subscribe to the website feed and/or…
After 6.5 years at Yahoo (working with the engineering teams behind Yahoo! Messenger and the Yahoo! Developer Network), I’ve made a career move this month and joined Citrix Online. I’ll be part of the engineering management team for the collaboration products which include GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToTraining.