Goin' GOOG
Big news! (for me, at least) I'm taking a position on the Chrome team doing Developer Relations. I'll be evangelizing HTML5, Chrome, Chrome OS, and everything under the Open Web umbrella. It'll be a bunch of writing, speaking, tutorials and guides, and engagement with the developer community. (Hey guys! :)
As I'm very passionate about all this, I'm quite excited about this opportunity. Google Chrome has become the browser to beat very quickly. It's a solid platform for browsing and developing as well. I can't wait to join the team and start kicking ass, making Chrome ideal for developers and pushing the open web forward.
As part of this, I'm also moving to San Francisco. Farewell, my dear Boston. *sniff* :(
I'm leaving an incredible team of UX architects, interactive designers, software engineers, and front-end developers at Molecular/Isobar. It's been 3.5 years and I would've easily stayed longer. If you're in Boston, Toronto or SF and want to develop incredible sites and apps for high-profile clients, I couldn't recommend working there enough. <3z
This is all happening over the next 60 days, along with a busy schedule of JSConf, Bay Area jQuery Conference, TXJS, and a few weddings.
I plan to continue to be active in the jQuery community (thx to my compadre Karl Swedberg for the referral!), and continue developing Modernizr and CSS3Please. I also got a few more projects on the way. Exciting times. :)
Follow me on twitter: @paul_irish
Congratulations buddy! You deserve it.
FIRST! Oh wait. :/
Congrats, Paul!
WOW! Congratulations!
Damn it! I thought I would win this "FIRST COMMENT" hands down. CONGRATULATIONS PAUL!
Wow, congrats Paul. Sounds like a great gig. You'll certainly be missed around Boston!
Paul - mega congrats to you, compadre. I always figured it would be a matter of time before one of the big guns snatched you up :). Enjoy Boston while you can, but you're onto MUCH bigger and MUCH better things.
- Joel
No way!
Congrats Paul! Such an amazing team to be part of of. Very much deserved!
Congrats, Paul.
Congratulations! From the reading I've done here, you really will be a great fit.
Wow, that's awesome. Congrats!!
Ahh… I remember you were looking around at the neighborhoods in San Francisco last time you were there :) Coincidence?
Nice news! You better keep blogging and sharing nifty stuff - in fact, make them include it as part of your new job responsibilities. ;) Keep blogging and finding/sharing nifty stuff.
I'm sure it's all thanks to your new background… ;)
Congrats!
Congratulations on your new position :)!
Dude, kick ass!
Congratulations Google Chrome team!
Hat's off sir, you'll make an excellent addition.
Congratulations Google Chrome team indeed.
Congrats dude!
Congrats Paul….was just hoping Google will hire some hard core Jquery guys this morning….congrats again.
Congratulations Paul! That's exciting news!
Congrats! Sounds like an exciting opportunity. I think you'll like S.F. too. ;-)
Congratulations, Paul. That's a win for everyone!
Congrats to Google!
Congrats, dude!
I did the switch to Chromium about a month ago. I did a fresh SL install and intentionally kept it free of Firefox for a few weeks. The Webkit Developer Tools are now very close to the built-in Firebug capabilities and so far they cover all my needs. The top feature of the browser is it's speed.
Great news Paul. Real happy for you (and jealous :)
Awesomeness. Congratulations!
Wow! Awesome! Well deserved.
OH SNAP!
Awesome! So, what are you waiting for? Start fixing some bugs already!!
Congrats Paul! Definitely well earned.
Congrats, Paul!
Congrats Paul! Oddly enough I announced the other day that I am moving to San Francisco as well. Hope to see you around the bay.
Congrats Paul! Make sure to rub in the warm weather next winter
Awesome…. Congrats Paul…
Good luck at Google!
BTW, I'd love to work at Molecular/Isobar as a front end developer. I know 4 people who currently work there and they love it. I've had a hard time getting myself in the door though.
Marty Middelmann - UX Developer / CSS God [linkedin]
@Schill
Haha. Indeed! "nifty stuff" made it into the official contract a few times. ;)
@Mr.doob
!!!! Yeah man! Btw I'll have a post coming soon where I properly thank you for making me look cool. Thx again.
@Rostislav
I do all my dev in Chrome now, too. It's very infrequent that I have to go back to firebug. Still I think Chrome can do better. Hope to make that happen.
@Paul Stamatiou
Huge! Hopefully we can meet up with some other Pauls sometime.
Not really that impressed. #js
Congratulations, Irish. Gerar News
Congrats Paul!
You will be a huge asset to Google, and it will be great to continue to see your goodness in the Open Web!
Cheers,
Dion
I don't know you Sir, but congratulations. Any benefit, aid and guides to the Open Web spectrum is welcomed! GL working with one of the most transparent companies on the web!
@Alex Sexton
Wow, dick.
Thank sir. I find this blog very useful. I make a congratulate.
@Alex Slexton
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congrats man, does this mean I get to bitch at you when I stumble upon something weird? :D (it's rhetorical, I will anyway)
Congrats, Paul. Looking forward to seeing Chrome's dev tools overtake Firebug. :)
@Buyog
Me too!
Wow jquery to Chrome just like that; awesome man ! All the best & a big Conga rats!
"I'm leaving an incredible team of UX architects, interactive designers, software engineers, and front-end developers at Molecular/Isobar."….. ahem, there seems to be one particular discipline that has been left off the list.
Congrats Paul!
@Brendan
.. and the BEST project managers in all the land! It's true.
Well done man, big move and hopefully a good thing for chrome too :o)
Congrats Paul! I am so impressed (and a little jealous) with all you have done since h.s. Boston will miss you. <3
This is great news… Good luck!
Holy crap! Congrats man!
If you're evangelizing for Chrome, does that make you a Google-thumper?
Paul, congrats on the new gig. Best of luck on the West Coast.
congrats man! this is quite nice
Great news!
lol ..wait, why ??i look brush effect on the background of this page…you mean it'a a part of html5??
great job, sir
Congrats Paul and congrats Google Chrome Team :D
Congrats!!!
Paul, congrats on your new adventure. Sounds like a great opportunity. Best wishes in the move and the new role. Ralph
Good work, chrome is going to get even better =]
Congratulations, dude!
Paul, great news! Looking forward to working together.
GUI debugger for V8 that can work *outside* of Chrome would be nice for those of us using the JS VM for other things (having said that, Chrome could really use a decent Firebug/Venkman-a-like too..) ;)
wooow
thats a pretty nice news =D
gratz!
big-ass congrats, Paul, cannot wait to see what amazing things continue to come from you in the land of Goog!
Atg
Congrats dude!
Congrats Paul! Love Chrome already, can't wait to see what happens now!
Way to go Paul. Lots of luck. Google is lucky to have you.
Way to go, Paul. You are one talented, energetic dude, and you deserve it. Have a blast out in San Francisco!
I obviously have been way too busy to surf around and missed this. Congrats. They are definitely getting a great guy. Looking forward to see what you blog about when you are settled there. :)
"come to the goog side of the web, we have cookies!"
I wish you a lot of cookies, fun and a good tiem over there!
Will you be at Google IO 2010?! If so, I REALLY wanna meet ya!
@Will Smidlein I won't be at IO, sadly.
Also just wanna leave a reference to this..
this post made Hacker News (no idea why really… ) and on it was this funny thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1252977
which in turn created:
http://elblancohn.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/goin-to-work/
which made me lol
a lot. :)