Paul Irish

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. :)

Paul Irish me

Back in the May issue of .net magazine, my friend and talented designer Tom Kershaw wrote an article on improving your speed, efficiency and polish with Photoshop. [PDF download here]

I wrote a sidebar about better ways for front-end developers to work with visual designers. Funnily enough, because of the lead time, by the time the magazine got to press, some of my recommendations (e.g. "embrace sIFR") were already out of date.

If anyone has additional recommendations on how front-end developers and designers can improve their workflow, I'd love to see them in the comments.

Paul Irish me

————— 12:47 pm —————
paullll irish: hiii there.
KindOfABigDeal: hi
paullll irish: you've been sitting on my buddy list for a long while.
paullll irish: i just wanted to say hi to whoever had this screenname.
paullll irish: because its pretty effing sweet.
KindOfABigDeal: haha
paullll irish: :)
KindOfABigDeal: why thank you
paullll irish: well of course!
paullll irish: i imagine this is a secondary name for you?
KindOfABigDeal: yep!
KindOfABigDeal: i guess you are a big archorman fan?
KindOfABigDeal: anchorman*
paullll irish: honestly i heard "kind of a big deal" without actually seeing anchorman
paullll irish: then i finally watched it and was like OOOOOHHhhthatswhere its from.
KindOfABigDeal: haha
KindOfABigDeal: thats how I was with borat
paullll irish: and then i was like.. GENIUS idea for a screenname! i'm gonna register it!
paullll irish: but then! foiled!
paullll irish: some theif had already acquired such a perfect name.
KindOfABigDeal: haha sorrrrrry
paullll irish: haha you jerk.
paullll irish: :)
KindOfABigDeal: that I am
KindOfABigDeal: and I never even use it!
KindOfABigDeal: i feel bad
paullll irish: i knowwwwwwwwww1
paullll irish: its been on my buddy list for like a year1
KindOfABigDeal: do you want it?
paullll irish: omg
paullll irish: if you were that nice
paullll irish: i dont know
KindOfABigDeal: you can just change the password if you want
paullll irish: thats just the sweetest thing in the world.
paullll irish: haha
KindOfABigDeal: haha
paullll irish: you'd make my fucking month.
KindOfABigDeal: awww!  yay!
KindOfABigDeal: you can return the favor one day I'm sure
KindOfABigDeal: haha
paullll irish: you're too kind.
paullll irish: i definitely will.
paullll irish: i'll make you a custom music mix.
paullll irish: oh yes.
KindOfABigDeal: ooooo very nice
KindOfABigDeal: well the password is 2yelow4u
paullll irish: so sweet. :) awesome.
KindOfABigDeal: so i guess this will be the last time we talk haha
paullll irish: it doesnt have to be that way!
paullll irish: we can be BFF
KindOfABigDeal: haha yessss
paullll irish: Sweet.
paullll irish: okay i imagine you have a myspace.
KindOfABigDeal: yeah i love it
paullll irish: if you give me that i'll leave you comments extolling how wonderful a person you are
KindOfABigDeal: i'm obsessed
paullll irish: i'll write sonnets in your name
KindOfABigDeal: www.myspace.com/meggz122
paullll irish: hahaaha
KindOfABigDeal: thats my REAL screenname too haha
paullll irish: aaaah
paullll irish: i see. cool. :)
paullll irish: An email has been sent to the user for your request to add this user.

*wins!*

Paul Irish me

My room since I moved in.

Room redesign possibility #1

Room redesign possibility #2 – WINNER!

Paul Irish me

—- Original Message —–
From: Paul Irish
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:47:28 -0500
To: support@reservationless-plus.com
Subject: hold music

This hold music is infuriating. It makes me want to convince the entire PM team to use a different provider.
In addition to the all-to-often marketing messages, the music choice is terrible. The wailing guitar solo is loud and conspicuous.
I think the volume of all of it could be toned down quite a bit.

Anyway, though I write this in a state of frustration, I hope this feedback is received and digested with understanding. :)

Cheers

—–Original Message—–
From: Wright, Crystal
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:34 AM
To: paul.irish
Cc: QCD
Subject: RE: hold music – Thread:326586

Paul thank you for your feedback, we have provided your feedback to our
Marketing Department. Have a great day.

Crystal Wright
Quality Supervisor

On 2/14/07, Brown, Hattie wrote:

Our marketing department is working to change this ASAP. The messages
will rotate every 90 seconds (and be different) and the music will
change out every few weeks.

Damn straight.

Paul Irish me