Archive for the 'work' Tag

After a slightly longer drafting period than I’d planned, my article Kelkoo goes microformatic has gone live on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog.

It’s a lengthy piece on the recent redevelopment of Kelkoo and the microformats we added to it. It’s focused on the consumption of the formats though; putting them to use to build a [...]

It’s been too long and there’s too much to write about, so in unhelpful munged-together form, here’re the last few months of my life:

Work at Yahoo! is going very well indeed. It took a little while to settle in, and my tolerance for the Cambridge–London commute is variable at best, but right now I’m having [...]

This blog post has been delayed about a month whilst a few issues got sorted out, but it’s with giddy excitement that I finally announce that I’ve got a new job; I’m now a web developer for Yahoo! in London.

It’s been a rather frantic and in places stressful turn of events: Returning from South by [...]

I’ve been in my new job three days and already I get to advertise for a colleague, things are moving quite fast here.

We at Yobject are in the process of building a large scale web application in C# for .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005.

We’re looking for another thoughful and creative developer to join us [...]

On a related note to all of this employment talk, I’m currently spending summer at home and trying to pay my way by taking on some small-scale web development jobs.

Therefore, if you’ve got some HTML/CSS needs fixing, templates building from Photoshop mockups, CMS theme building, PHP hacking or similar then drop an email to smalljobs@ben-ward.co.uk [...]