Good Changes: On Becoming a Yahoo
I haven’t been able to do any proper public blogging (or much hobby design or development work, for that matter) for a while now because of some pretty exciting developments so far: I have been in Singapore since early last week, and I have just started working as a web developer/front-end engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia. My best friends will now be HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with a little PHP. Words cannot completely express my excitement and anticipation at this new opportunity! I will now proceed to pepper my statements with exclamation points!!
Kidding aside, I’m still easing into everything, and even when I’ve been here for a longer period of time, I still won’t be able to go into a lot of details about work in Yahoo!, but what does this mean for my hobby work, my linkware scripts, this blog and scripts archive?
It means I’ll probably be a bit more exposed to new and emerging web trends and technologies and techniques, revolving around how things look, usability, accessibility, and stuff like that. That’s quite a bit more time to immerse myself with web things, which I have always wanted to do, and might probably impact either blog posts here or scripts I create/update (hopefully for the better! ;)).
It will hopefully mean that as my involvement with work!PHP will be lesser this time around, I might have more interest in working with PHP in my own free time. A lot of the development for my scripts have stalled because of two things: work (and travel to/from it) keeps me busy, and when I do get time to putty around, I don’t feel like working with the same things I’ve been working with the whole week (read: PHP). That’s just the way it really is. I’m hoping that my love for PHP work/coding gets revived (not that it really died, but you know what I mean) and that I can finally push in a lot of the things I have planned for my scripts, especially Enthusiast.
It will also hopefully mean more fun postings about tech and various non-sensitive Yahoo! stuff. :D For non-tech updates or maybe tech ramblings that are far too random for this blog, there is always my Livejournal, which anyone can watch if they so like. I do post publicly there time and time again.
I’ll see you around. ;)
aj batac
Congrats Angela! :)
Angela
Thanks AJ! :D
Vix
Congrats Angela! Think of all the exciting stuff you’ll be doing!
Angela
Thanks, Vix! Yeah, I’m looking forward to that — even though a number of things I’ve heard over the orientation have been rather daunting, I’m still pretty psyched to have next week start XD
Tita Dette Joven - BCBP
Hi Angela!
Congrats for this truly big feat! you sure are one blessed lady…and your parents, especially your dad keeps on bragging about you….understandably so, any parent would do the same ;-) take care and God bless!
Angela
Hi Tita Dette, thanks! :D I do feel quite blessed, and I hope to live up not to people’s expectations but His as well. :)
Ilona
Congratulations! I’m sure you’re really excited and you can’t express it enough with words. If I were you, I’d do the same thing. Leaping through the air. Jumping for joy. Giggling like some lunatic.. (well, maybe this is a bit over-wrote). Well anyways, congrats once again and good luck! ;D
Angela
Thanks, Ilona! Yes, I was pretty excited when it came down to it. :D
Finch
Impressive