August 25, 2008

Yahoo! Open Hack Day

The hack is back! Want to request an invite to Open Hack 2008, September 12-13? Sign up at www.hackday.org. Hope you can join us at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale. We don’t mind if you code all night.

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August 25, 2008

Yahoo! Developer Network - Interns

This summer we had 3 great interns join the Yahoo! Developer Network team. In this video you'll get to meet Mattt, Christian & Joseph:

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August 14, 2008

Fire Eagle takes flight

Fire Eagle is an open platform that helps users take their location to the web, and safely share their info with sites, services, and people on the Internet while keeping full control over their data and privacy. Watch Tom Coates give an overview:

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August 14, 2008

OSCON - Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath

Rabble is a hacker and software developer at large. He has extensive experience doing Ruby on Rails development and generally causing a ruckus. He built the core of the Yahoo! Fire Eagle location broker platform, was lead engineer on Odeo.com, and is writing Testing Ruby on Rails for O’Reilly.

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August 12, 2008

OSCON - OpenID with Allen Tom

OpenID (openid.net) is a single sign-on solution that has gained a lot of traction in 2008. Putting a critical eye to openid's many deployments, this panel will consider questions such as "how has openid succeeded/failed?," "how have end-users responded to openid?," "is openid safer/more-dangerous than other approaches?" "what are some openid success stories?," and "how could openid be improved?"

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August 12, 2008

OSCON - Simon St. Laurent

Simon St. Laurent is a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, NY. His books include XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Cookies, Office 2003 XML, and the XML Pocket Reference.

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August 6, 2008

OSCON - Jay Shirley, CatalystFramework.org

Our new Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist Erik Eldridge was busy talking to attendees at OSCON. He sat with Jay Shirley from CatalystFramework.org to learn more about Jay and some of his open projects:

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August 6, 2008

OSCON - Chris Messina & Scott Kveton

Scott Kveton is a digital identity promoter and open source advocate. Scott has worked at Amazon, RuleSpace.com and JanRain as well as founded the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University. Chris Messina arrived in San Francisco four years ago to begin volunteering for the Mozilla Foundation, as a leader of the Spread Firefox community marketing project. During his time with Mozilla, he helped raise over $220,000 in microdonations to put a two-page spread, which he also designed, into the New York Times helping to increase Firefox’s downloads to over 50 million in its first six months.

Tom Hughes-Croucher sat down with them at OSCON to learn more about their talk on OpenID:

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August 6, 2008

OSCON - HDFS Under the Hood

Our own Sanjay gave a talk at OSCON on The Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) which provides scalable, fault-tolerant, and high performance data storage and retrieval for Internet scale data applications. This talk presents an overview of HDFS and then dives under the hood to look at its implementation, performance characteristics, and planned enhancements.

ABOUT: Sanjay leads the Hadoop Distributed File System project at Yahoo where it is in daily use for large clusters of several thousand machines. Previously he has held senior positions at Cassatt, Sun Microsystems and INRIA where he has developed systems software for distributed systems and grid/utility computing infrastructures. He has published numerous papers and holds several patents. Sanjay has PhD in Computer Science from University of Waterloo, Canada.

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August 4, 2008

OSCON - The Fishsticks

Ok, so being at OSCON wasn't all business. We sent our intern Mattt (he can explain the 3 t's) around the show floor to do a little video for us. If you haven't heard of "fishsticks", then do a Yahoo! search and see more. Here's what we got:

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