Dynamic Flash

Never do this. You will burn in hell.

I’m very excited to break the news that, as of next month, I’ll be a Yahoo! employee. I’ll be heading up the Flash work that they do in the UK, and also getting my hands dirty with lots of XHTML, CSS, and DOM scripting goodness. In the past few months they’ve hired at lot of good people from the industry recently, and I’m really looking forward to working with and learning from all everyone. I hope that I can contribute back to the group with my knowledge of all things Flash.

I know I’ve had my disagreements with Yahoo! in the past, but as I understand it these decisions were made entirely in the US and had nothing at all to do with the fine folks at Yahoo! UK. Besides, it’s often better to try to change things from within than from without, and Yahoo! really seem like a company that’s open to change.

Of course, this means moving from Bristol to London, which is a bit daunting for a country boy like myself. Several friends have offered suggestions of good places to live in London, but if any of you have any ideas I’m all ears. I’ll be looking to rent a one or two bed flat initially for around the £1,000 per month mark, so if you hear of anything that’s suitable and available in the next month or so then please let me know.

Before I go I have to say that I’ll be very sorry to leave Featurecreep. There’s some really exciting stuff going on here at the moment that I won’t get to be a part of, and I wish them all the very best in the future. If you need a state-of-the-art content managed, fully semantic and accessible website, do give them a call! Ben, James and Jamie: thanks for the ride of a lifetime!

As I move on to pastures new, I don’t know what that will mean for the future of this site. I have the impression that Yahoo! are a very liberal company (the Yahoo! UI library is a good example of just *how* liberal they’ve become) so hopefully I’ll still be able to post thoughts, rants, experiments and useful code snippets here when I have time.