Hip me to the Haps » Life http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com Jeff Verkoeyen's Personal Blog Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:45:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Back to the Bay Area http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/back-to-the-bay-area http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/back-to-the-bay-area#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:03:04 +0000 Jeff Verkoeyen http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/?p=148 Continue reading →]]> The last few weeks have been a whirlwind. Between leaving Facebook and moving out to California I’ve barely had a chance to take a breath. Today is my second week of work though so I’m now taking some time to catch up.

First order of business, I want to make it publicly known that I have taken a job working at Google on their mobile team. I will be doing backend work which will be a refreshing change from the contract iOS development I’ve been doing for the past few years.

This does not mean that I have stopped all iOS development. If you haven’t already seen my Nimbus project then I encourage you to take a glance at it when you have a moment. I am planning to continue work on Nimbus by dedicating a chunk of each morning to it and my various other iOS open source projects.

In other news, I’m excited to announce that Nimbus passed 500 followers over the weekend on Github! I’m really excited about this because this project is still in its infancy.

On Leaving Facebook

I learned a lot during my time at Facebook. Facebook is truly an exciting place to work at and I am sad to have left. I had the great privilege of working closely with some of the best designers in the industry and shadowing David Recordon as we looked into the possibility of me working on their open source team. I spent a significant amount of time thinking about what I wanted to do and decided in the end that I needed to switch things up and step away from Facebook.

I wish them the best of luck going forward. Timeline was an incredible launch and I look forward to following the company’s progress.

If you’re coming here from any of the press earlier today, I want to emphasize that my experience with Facebook over the past few years has been incredible and that I was simply recounting my experiences over the past few months related to my work at Facebook.

Oct 10, 2011 Update

And the iPad app is live! Congratulations to the talented team at Facebook that got this out the door. It’s great to see it in the wild!

Cheers,
- Jeff

]]> http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/back-to-the-bay-area/feed 6 Hip me to the Haps http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/hip-me-to-the-haps http://blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/hip-me-to-the-haps#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:48:33 +0000 Jeff Verkoeyen http://thejefffiles.com/blog.jeffverkoeyen.com/?p=3 Continue reading →]]> I’m a victim of trends and it seems that some of my friends have been keeping rather good logs of their day-to-day activities. It’s about time I start contributing to this “internet” contraption all proper-like.

I’ll quickly explain where the hell the name of this blog came from. I took part in a musical titled Leader of the Pack during my 12th year of education. Thanks to Google’s book scraping, I can actually point you to the exact line I elocuted while crossing right, downstage of Jeff. I had one line and I got to wear cool shades. It was good times.

I think I may write my blog posts like my git commits. Mostly atomic, but oftentimes a ménage à trois of sorts. Sometimes I might cherry-pick posts from other blogs of mine, and sometimes I might, gods forbid, rewrite history. I’ll try to keep that last one down to a minimum.

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