I've been Dugg
All things come to an end, and so does my free, unemployed, wake-up-at-11-if-you-wish bum time. I’m happy to say that come Monday morning I’ll be starting at Digg as their Open Source Fellow. This is an exciting opportunity which will let me dedicate more time to PHP and other open source software, not to mention helping shore up my dwindling savings account.
Digg has a heavy investment in the open source stack and a bunch of really smart people working on it. I’m looking forward to joining the team and sinking my teeth into some very interesting problems. Plus, a major portion of my time will be spent working on PHP itself – yes, that does mean PHP 6 will be a reality that much sooner.
And now I should go take a bike ride and enjoy my remaining leisure time…
UPDATE: This post now really has been Dugg. Oh, the irony of recursion..
04/12/2008 at 12:41 pm Permalink
Congratulations! I hope to see you at some of the Digg parties here in SF. :)
04/12/2008 at 12:48 pm Permalink
Yes, yes you have. http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Hires_Andrei_Zmievski
Congrats.
04/12/2008 at 12:54 pm Permalink
Congrats! I hope you enjoy it. :-)
04/12/2008 at 12:54 pm Permalink
Congrats, Andrei! One more reason to celebrate this Tuesday. :)
04/12/2008 at 12:59 pm Permalink
Excellent!
04/12/2008 at 1:08 pm Permalink
Great news! Congratulations :)
04/12/2008 at 1:10 pm Permalink
That's awesome. Probably one of the most focused groups of engineers ever assembled.
04/12/2008 at 1:23 pm Permalink
Congrats Andrei!
04/12/2008 at 1:24 pm Permalink
Excellent! Congrats, Andrei! Congrats, Digg. :) Bring on PHP 6!
04/12/2008 at 1:28 pm Permalink
congrats Andrei!!
04/12/2008 at 1:32 pm Permalink
congrats! :D
04/12/2008 at 1:33 pm Permalink
HA! I knew something was up! Congrats on the new gig! Look forward to hearing much more about it!
/LC
04/12/2008 at 2:13 pm Permalink
Congratulations, have fun there and build cool stuff
04/12/2008 at 2:24 pm Permalink
Congratulations!!
04/12/2008 at 3:11 pm Permalink
Congratulations Andrei, good luck with the new job and all the new challenges that come along with it!
04/12/2008 at 3:14 pm Permalink
Wow, must be nice. Lucky Dude.
ejss
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04/12/2008 at 3:34 pm Permalink
Congrats, Andrei!
04/12/2008 at 3:46 pm Permalink
So you work on PHP?
04/12/2008 at 3:51 pm Permalink
What's PHP? What's Digg? Who the frak are you?
Seriously though, congrats, I'm taken completely by surprise. Did not see this coming at all! :p
04/12/2008 at 3:55 pm Permalink
Hey Andrei,
Congratulations! Hey whatever happened to that picture of me downing someone else's pitcher of margarita...after the pong & lingerie party?
Cheers,
Daniel
04/12/2008 at 3:56 pm Permalink
Say it ain't so! An open source being paid to ... open source? WTH kind of business model is that?
04/12/2008 at 4:01 pm Permalink
маааалодчик! россия гордится тобой ;) удачи! подложи Кевину свинью хорошую от меня.
04/12/2008 at 4:20 pm Permalink
Good move, Digg! Sounds like a fun gig, Andrei.
04/12/2008 at 4:44 pm Permalink
Congrats, Andrei!
04/12/2008 at 4:49 pm Permalink
Congratulations Andrei! :)
04/12/2008 at 5:02 pm Permalink
Congrats to Digg for enabling such a great community position, and to Andrei for being the first with the title on his business cards ;-)
04/12/2008 at 5:14 pm Permalink
Congrats! You and I need to hook up next time you're up my way (and it wasn't until this article got dugg that I realized I lost your RSS feed in my feedreader).
04/12/2008 at 5:16 pm Permalink
Grats, Andrei!
04/12/2008 at 5:18 pm Permalink
Grats Andrei~
04/12/2008 at 5:20 pm Permalink
Very jealous of Digg, congrats!
Now there's no excuse to not add friend classes to PHP6. ;)
04/12/2008 at 5:33 pm Permalink
WOOHOOO
Digg is great, php is great... this is great news, Congrats dude..
04/12/2008 at 5:38 pm Permalink
So PHP 6 will be done in February next year? Cool.
04/12/2008 at 7:00 pm Permalink
Congrats! great news for the PHP community and open source. Love to see company forward thinking and pay engineers for open source development as it always pay in the long run with cuting edge technology that will take the company ahead of others :)
04/12/2008 at 7:05 pm Permalink
Congrats on your new position mate.
Nickpick: That's not irony! Not recursion either :p
04/12/2008 at 7:27 pm Permalink
Great news. Now you have more time to work on PHP. I hope that new position will inspire you some new ideas to improve PHP.
04/12/2008 at 8:54 pm Permalink
Congratulation. All the best with your new position.
04/12/2008 at 9:17 pm Permalink
What's DIGG?
04/12/2008 at 9:38 pm Permalink
Molodec!
Prisoedinayus k pozdravleniyam, zhelayu udachi, bol'shih uspehov na novom meste i udachnogo vipuska PHP6 ;)
04/12/2008 at 9:57 pm Permalink
Sounds like your going to be getting up early and
working long hours. Guess the long hours are
not too bad. Its getting up early that gets to me.
thanks from tony
04/12/2008 at 11:52 pm Permalink
I hope you can blog on your work at digg and tell us all your secret programing tasks ;)
05/12/2008 at 1:41 am Permalink
Congrats! I hope you enjoy it.!
05/12/2008 at 3:54 am Permalink
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05/12/2008 at 10:00 am Permalink
Congrats to you from all of us here at GPLpedia.com -- A community to Promote Open Source Source.
05/12/2008 at 12:16 pm Permalink
Hmm... Digg's not my cup of tea, but since they hired you, I guess they can't be that bad.
05/12/2008 at 10:36 pm Permalink
Big congrats man. I don't know you, but hey anytime someone gets to work at a great company I have to offer up a congrats.
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