A lot has happened in the 2 years since I last wrote anything here. I guess a brief catchup is needed.
In February 2007 we took a one way flight to San Francisco and haven't really looked back. Around the same time my group at Yahoo metamorphosed itself into Yahoo Brickhouse and launched Yahoo Pipes.
Shortly after that I joined the Flickr team, then spent a few months building Flickr Stats. These days I head up the PHP engineering team at Flickr, which includes some of the most talented developers I know.
I spoke at XTech 2007 on the difficulties of GeoLocation. I organized a panel at South By Southwest 2008 about working in multidisciplinary teams. And a few weeks ago I did a session at Web 2.0 Expo New York about that Flickr Stats thing. I'm hoping to get all the slides for these talks online in the not-too-distant future.
I'm somehow still married, and still a dad. My kid continues to challenge and amaze me every single day.
Oh, and I learned how to snowboard.
So that's what I've been up to. Question is, where next?
Posted in Paul Hammond's Journal on 2008-09-29