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Facebook performance woes

Posted on 10 December 2009 by Bob

Today Facebook launched their new privacy settings and forced all their users to update their settings. We noticed at Yahoo! that we were started to get lots of timeouts from Facebook’s APIs that we use on the Yahoo! homepage. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Hardware hacking at SkillsMatter

Posted on 30 November 2009 by Bob

So tomorrow is my talk at SkillsMatter on Hardware hacking. Here is an uploaded copy of my draft presentation: View more presentations from Andrew Brockhurst.

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Hardware Hacking: YDN @ Skillsmatter

Posted on 5 November 2009 by Bob

I will be giving a talk at SkillsMatter in London on Hardware Hacking. This will be on Tuesday 1st December and will be the final talk in the Yahoo! Developer Network’s YDN Tuesday series. This talk will be an introduction … Continue reading →

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A day in the life of a booth bunny

Posted on 2 October 2009 by Bob

Yesterday was the first day of FoWA, the Future of Web Applications tech conference, and although my wife was 8 days overdue with the birth of our first born, I offered to help at the Yahoo! Developers Network stand as … Continue reading →

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New Yahoo! Homepage

Posted on 3 August 2009 by Bob

So the reason I’ve not posted anything for a while, and have had to be careful about what I talk about when and if I do. Last week we turned on the opt in to the Yahoo! Homepage http://uk.yahoo.com/trynew My … Continue reading →

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