Tim Bray on moving jobs

Life Blog :: Tim Bray on moving jobs

Mar 18 '10 9:36am

Link
Shrt.ct

Tim Bray left Oracle for Google. What he said about Apple is well worth reading, but this caught my eye for personal reasons:

I’d had an offer to stay with Oracle which I decided to decline; I’ll maybe tell the story when I can think about it without getting that weird spiking-blood-pressure sensation in my eyeballs.

I know that feeling too well.

Networking

Google: TheBuckSt0p

Facebook: BenBuckman

Github: newleafdigital Twitter

@thebuckst0p

Delicious: thebuckst0p

Drupal.org: thebuckst0p

My Businesses

Drupal & Web Development Consulting

The best place online to find antique sales

Recent Blog Posts

Food discoveries: coffee ice cream and salad 02/02/12
Bicycling in Buenos Aires, week 1 01/30/12
The globalization of cooking 01/29/12
Our first trip to Barrio Chino 01/28/12
Cucumber cilantro cocktails 01/28/12

Recent Tech Posts

Reducing coordinate density in KML files (with a node.js script) (1/30)
Git trick: Cleanup end-of-line changes (1/30)
Why Node.js? Why clients should ask for it, and developers should build with it (1/17)
Apps.newleafdigital.com: Building a suite of apps in node.js (1/17)
How to install xhprof on OSX (Snow Leopard or Lion) and XAMPP (1/14)
Unconventional unit testing in Drupal 6 with PhpUnit, upal, and Jenkins (12/14)
Making sense of Varnish caching rules (12/12)
Parse Drupal watchdog logs in syslog (using node.js script) (11/29)
Migrating a static 960.gs grid to a responsive, semantic grid with LessCSS (11/25)
Generate pager (previous/next) links for an old Blogspot blog using Node.js (11/25)
Tilt, 3D Dom Inspector for Firefox (10/30)
Great list of new dev tools from Smashing Magazine (10/30)
Exploring the node.js frontier (10/16)
Brainstorming: Building an advertising system for AntiquesNearMe.com (8/21)
Launched: KickinKitchen.TV, a kids' cooking show (8/16)

Recently Bookmarked

This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business | Fast Company
Getting the News — Zach Seward | News.me
Bootstrap v2 from Twitter
psd.js: You Guessed It - A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript - Badass JavaScript
How to Adjust Bicycle Gears - YouTube

RSS

My Blog & Tweets My Blog only Tech Blog

Travels

Steph and Ben's Travels
Cross-Country Motorcycle Trip (2006)
Paris (12/29/07)

Ben Buckman.net