Archive for July, 2007
High-Performance JavaScript (OSCON 2007)
High-Performance JavaScript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught is Wrong O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2007 Portland, OR July 25, 2007 Download PPT (7.3MB) This talk describes many of the counterintuitive lessons we learned at Plaxo while building Plaxo Online 3.0 and trying to make it fast. In addition to sharing technical tricks and gotchas, I [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development.
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Congrats to David Recordon!
Yesterday morning, I watched David Recordon lead an “OpenID Bootcamp” for OSCON attendees (including a handout for everyone of the implementation guide I wrote, wow!). Then last night he received a Google – O’Reilly Open Source Award for his contributions to the development and spread of OpenID. What a day! David has been a great [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Personal, Plaxo.
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More on my new role at Plaxo
I just posted some thoughts on my new role at Plaxo as their Chief Platform Architect. Like my previous roles at Plaxo, this is both a formalization of something I was already doing and a decision to focus more intensely on it. In this case, it’s because Plaxo has ended up in a potentially pivotal [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Blog, Open Social Web, Personal, Plaxo.
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Best marketing campaign ever!
The 7-Eleven in Mountain View (near the old Plaxo office) has been transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart in support up the upcoming Simpsons movie. There are lot of hardcore Simpsons fans at Plaxo (myself included), so we had to check this out for ourselves. When we got there, there was a line out the door. So [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under Personal.
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Celebrating our 2nd anniversary
It’s hard to believe, but Michelle and I have now been happily married for two years! To celebrate, I took her on a little getaway in SF. We had an amazing dinner at Michael Mina and we stayed in a tower suite at the Westin St. Francis that looked out at the Golden Gate Bridge [...]
Posted: July 2nd, 2007 under Personal.
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