Technically Sweet Dragon Slayer
Following up my Technically Sweet performance at our internal hack day, I’ve been awarded the “Dragon Slayer” award by our larger group: Communications, Communities and Front Doors, run by SVP Brad Garlinghouse. I won the award for my efforts in getting the Yahoo! Mail Web Service ready for it’s debut at Open Hack Day. It’s great to get recognition for something like that. I put a lot of effort in during the weeks leading up to Open Hack Day: coding, testing, documenting and putting together a quick SDK. The experience alone made it worth the effort, but the recognition is icing on the cake. It’s nice to know that everything I did was appreciated, not that I didn’t already know that since Ash Patel (Chief Product Officer) dropped by after my talk at Open Hack Day to shake hands and talk for a bit.
It’s been an awesome, but exhausting, two months. September was all about the web service and Open Hack Day. October has been all about the move from Folsom to the Bay Area. I bet you’d think I’m going to take it easy in November? Fat chance, I start off November with a week long trip to Bangalore to visit the Yahoo! offices there.
