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  • 2010 Automattic Meetup


    Being a distributed company, the entire Automattic crew meets once a year so that we have an opportunity to interact with all of our peers (20+ new ones since last year) in person. This year’s meetup took place in Seaside, Florida.

    As a quick anecdote, Seaside is where the 1998 movie “The Truman Show” was filmed. Stunning location. Great movie, by the way.

    As per usual, we had a fantastic time together. Those events are always a wonderful reminder of how Automattic is THE best company in the World!

    Our days were filled with socializing, individual flash talks on any subject (mine was “How Woodworking Made me a Better Programmer”), team projects/presentations and other activities.

    All fantastic means of not only capturing the pulse of the company, its founders and employees, but also to learn so many things in such a fitting environment. I savored every minute of the trip, both from the personal as well as professional development perspectives.

    To all my Automattician brother-in-arms, thank you for the time we shared, and looking forward to the upcoming year. Special props to Rose for having done such a bang-up job organizing the whole thing!

    And to those who might be reading this and think how wonderful working with us would be: Think you have what it takes to join the team? Drop by our jobs page. The more, the merrier!

  • Summer Home Office

    La vie est dure.

  • Black and White Makes Anyone Look Good

    I @ WordCamp NYCFrom Eva Blue’s WordCamp NYC set.

  • Going to Florida

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    I’ll be attending and volunteering at WordCamp Orlando next weekend, followed by a week of co-working near Cape Coral with the illustrious Barry Abrahamson.

    Barry will be speaking on high performance WordPress and I’ll be helping with the Genius Bar, as I did at Wordcamp New York a couple of weeks ago.

    Very much looking forward to it all! Telecommuting is awesome, but it makes opportunities for spending time in person with your crew that much more enjoyable.

  • Dream Gig, Dream Team, Dream Environment: Thanks Automattic!

    Today is the most beautiful of days. I’m not talking about the weather, but about a feeling that is currently impregnating every single fiber of my professional being. See, today marks the beginning of my trial phase (contractor) as Automattic‘s newest full-time systems wrangler.

    You read that right: I’ll be working for the company behind WordPress.org, WordPress.com, Gravatar, Akismet and many other innovative and industry-leading products, with its wikipedia-entry-worthy figures, multi-datacenters infrastructure, the whole shebang.

    Don’t get me wrong, although this assignment represents, to me, the professional chance of a lifetime, it will also be the most challenging by far, the scale of it all mind boggling. Nothing is won yet beyond the opportunity and everything is still left to be achieved. Needless to say, I will be doing my very best (and then some) to own the said challenge and prove Barry, Matt and others I am indeed the right guy for the job.

    WordPress.com, one of our flagship products if you’re not familiar with it (hint: this very blogs runs on it), hosts such sites as “CNN’s Political Ticker, Dow Jones’ All Things D, the National Football League’s Official NFL blog, Time Inc’s The Page, People Magazine’s Style Watch, Om Malik, official blogs for communities like Flickr and BBC’s Top Gear, and many other high-profile and high-traffic blogs“. Automatticians also happen to be amongst the most successful Free and Open Source software evangelists, users and providers in the Web industry.

    To top it all off, the position means 100% telecommuting, a mandatory requirement for me to work for a US-based (but internationally staffed) company since my wife, 3 children and I are happily residing in Montreal, Canada. An ideal proposition for a professional like I, who applies as much emphasis on his family life and welfare’s as he does on his career (even if often with little moderation in either :p). Balance being the path to a full and well-lived life, in my humble opinion.

    In conclusion, I’d like to extend my deepest and most heartfelt thanks to Matt and the entire Automattic family for presenting me with this opportunity, as well as for welcoming me in their midst as we start and learn to work together.

    Aim high, reach higher!

    Update: Not a contractor any more. On staff since September 21st. 🙂