My first day on the job at Opera Software
Published October 25th, 2006 5:50 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanMy first full day at Opera Software is over; it was mostly a busy one. I got to meet many of my new co-workers. It’s a big office, and it occupies 3 floors, so I couldn’t quite say hello to all employees (close to 300 people work in this office).
I finally got to meet many of the desktop developers and QA people who I see all the time in Opera’s IRC channel and those who are active in the Opera forums. I tried to meet as many people as possible in my short visit to our headquarters, but ran out of time – I’ll just have to come back for another visit soon.
I also had a nice talk with Yngve Pettersen, who is working on some of the URL and cookie security stuff. He’s been working at Opera almost since the beginning, more than 10 years ago. Yngve recently submitted three internet drafts to the IETF. He wants to change the way browser cookies are handled. There are apparently some big security issues with the current cookie specification, which all modern browsers implement. Yngve has a cure for the problem. Read his blog posts (here and here) for more about this issue.
Tomorrow and Friday I’ll be out of the office for a desktop browser seminar with a bunch of desktop developers, marketing people, and QA folks. I’m looking forward to learning about the new features and strategy for the desktop browser. I hear there are some big stuff down the pipeline.
I’m flying back to the United States on Monday – I’ll be working on the east coast.
P.S. I’ll be at the Webmaster World conference in Las Vegas (November 14 – 17). Opera is one of the big sponsors there. Our CEO (Jon von Tetzchner) is also giving a keynote address at the conference. If you’re planning on attending, make sure you stop by our booth. I’d love to meet you.
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Lucky! You get to see all the new features before we do.
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So this is what you refer as the “Major changes to Opera Watch on the horizon”, isn’t it?
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You’re in Oslo? In that case, sorry about the weather. Do you think there will be an opportunity for us your Norwegian readers to shake your hand? You didn’t mention where the seminar is, but I’m sure it can’t be more than half an hour away from where I live.
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Yeah, the weather is awful today. But get used to it. It can only be worse..:)
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GL in your new job!
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Congrats!
You do an excellent job - and now you get payed for doing it also.
/Mikael
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Lusec, well I’m leaving Oslo for the US on Monday. We could meetup sometime on Sunday, if you’d like. Just send me an email.
Also, the desktop seminar was in a cabin somewhere out in the woods, I have no idea it’s location. It will take a bit of time until I get to know Oslo.