Portfolio: Yahoo!
I moved to the Bay Area in 2003 without a job and, after a bout of self-unemployment, I went about looking for work at the same time one of my contacts let me know about a web developer position available at Yahoo!. I didn't think I was going to be able to go from small ad agency to hulking Internet behemoth, but there you have it. I've been there ever since, working the front-end of Yahoo! Mobile and, most recently, Yahoo! Tones. I've also done some smaller projects like building ads for the front page portal, SMS Clipping, and a Winter holidays highlights page, but most of my time has been taken up by those sites to the right.
Yahoo! Mobile
HTML/CSS, Javascript, CVS, PHP, maintenance
I was originally hired by Yahoo! to work on the redesign of their Mobile property. Working with an interaction/visual designer, I made html proofs of the pages of this site, which the back-end engineers implemented. Over time I received more access to the servers and the site's CVS repository, and became responsible for more of the overall process of building and launching changes and new sections of the site. Also, when I started, a lot of the server-side logic was handled with an internal proprietary language, but I and the other engineers have since ported most of the site over to PHP.
I'm not entirely happy with how the CSS/HTML and Javascript was written. There are reasons for why things are the way things are which I shouldn't get into here, but can discuss offline. I bring this up because if you were to look under the hood, you might think parts of it are a mess, and I'd agree with you there. Some of the mess has been dealt with since the initial launch, but not all.
Yahoo! Tones
HTML/CSS, Javascript, CVS, maintenance
Recently we launched Yahoo! Tones, an online store where you can purchase ringtones, wallpapers, games and UI themes for your mobile phone. This is probably my best corporate work to date, and the CSS/Javascript with which I'm mostly happy. (Not 100% happy, but mostly. It's a work in progress.) The HTML was written with search engine optimization and internationalization in mind, and so far this site has been ported over to United Kingdom and German versions.