http://www.mediratta.net Mediratta news from far and wide! Sat, 10 May 2008 02:24:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are hiring! A little about our company: our on-demand recruitment application is used by mid-size companies to manage the entire hiring process. Our customers include TiVo, LinkedIn, Infinera, Splunk, Tellme, Mattson, Advent Software and many others. Near the end of 2007, we completed our A round of $7.2M, led by ... http://www.mediratta.net/85/we-are-hiring Our startup where I've been for the last year and a half (doing sales!) has gotten funding. You can see the official news here. We're very excited about the opportunity to grow. It's been quite a ride! http://www.mediratta.net/84/jobvite-gets-funding When Jen and I first started dating, I had a TV and no stereo and she had a stereo and no TV. It seemed like a great match, and for a long time we got by with what we had. About 4 years ago I decided to upgrade ... http://www.mediratta.net/83/new-entertainment-system Hot on the heels of a great October, we've been having a really good November. Jen's business is going very well (but I'll let her blog about that). Google isn't doing too badly either. I recently was promoted so now I'm a Senior Staff Software Engineer, which ... http://www.mediratta.net/82/november-is-off-to-a-fine-start The kids like to talk about what they remember. A couple of days ago Ally started talking about how she remembers Cole's first birthday. "I remember his birthday...there were a lot of kids and they were really loud and they were playing games. I was playing the ... http://www.mediratta.net/81/recent-comments-from-the-kids A while back, I was invited to give a keynote at StarWest 2007 which is very conveniently held at Disneyland. They wanted somebody from Google to come give a talk about Testing on the Toilet, which has gotten lots of press and outside recognition including the Washington Post and ... http://www.mediratta.net/80/disneyland-and-starwest When it rains it pours. Recently I was approached by James Maguire from Datamation to talk about my experience with SourceForge. I've been hosting Gallery on SourceForge in one form or another for over seven years now, so they wanted to get a little supporting material about how ... http://www.mediratta.net/79/articles-in-the-new-york-times-and-datamation We don't remember how we got on the topic but Cole wants "I love Ally" on his tombstone and Ally wants "I love Cole" on hers. http://www.mediratta.net/77/tombstones As promised, I've finally finished uploading my backlog of photos to the Gallery. Check out the following new albums: New Hampshire, April 2007 Jen, Cole and Ally head to New Hampshire to visit Grandmom and Grandpop in their new house for a week. It snows 6 inchs the night before ... http://www.mediratta.net/76/yet-more-new-photos Ok, not so new. But now you can see them. I've gone through my photo backlog and published four new albums, including one that's pretty recent: Ski Trip: Jan 2007 The first time the kids get to go skiing! And the first time that Jen has skiied in 7 ... http://www.mediratta.net/75/new-photos-2