Jul 20 2006
hello world!
Hello world - I’m Les Orchard. I’ve been a long-time fan and user of del.icio.us, developer of del.icio.us mash-ups, and recent author of Hacking del.icio.us. The obvious next step in this evolution is to be fully assimilated into the del.icio.us cube. So as of this week I have joined the del.icio.us team out in sunny California.
Dealing with a cross-country move and new employee orientation, my head’s still spinning faster than my hard drive platters. But, very shortly, I’ll be pitching in to help enhance and expand del.icio.us. I’m hoping to make use of lessons I picked up in writing my last book, as well as any other tricks I’ve stuffed into my head over the years. I’m not allowed to talk about all the ultra-awesome stuff on the horizon, but I can say that I’m geeked to be here!
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18 Comments
Gabe | Jul 20 2006 at 5:58 pm
Very cool. Welcome to SV!
Phil Wilson | Jul 21 2006 at 1:56 pm
Awesome stuff, Les! Glad to see you here!
Gregory Williams | Jul 21 2006 at 2:14 pm
Congratulations, Les. Very cool that you’ve joined del.icio.us. Can’t wait to see what sort of things you’ll be working on. Best of luck!
John Abbe | Jul 21 2006 at 4:38 pm
Congrats, Les! Your presence there bolsters my hope that they will remain non-evil despite the corporate takeover :)
Thinker | Jul 24 2006 at 2:51 am
cube huh? looks sweet
chi | Jul 24 2006 at 3:35 am
Dear Les, could you help add a function to del.icio.us, which can randomly present a bookmark.
For instance, if I hit some button under del.icio.us/my_user_name, then I get a random bookmark out of all my tens of hundreds bookmarks.
If I hit a button under del.icio.us/my_user_name/tag_1, I get a random bookmark with tag_1. May users want this function.
brian cors | Jul 24 2006 at 10:24 pm
Michigan misses you, but also is glad to have one o’ the people from the “Dirty Mitten” on board there. Congrats, and keep in touch!
Xichael | Jul 25 2006 at 9:57 pm
del.Les.us,
for a while now, I’ve been maintaining a del.icio.us stylesheet mod. I strive to skin the site in its entirety, keeping up with all the various changes del.icio.us goes through along the way. There are some things however, such as certain elements of the import page, which are (almost) beyond the reach of user defined stylesheets. Perhaps you could keep us CSS hackers in mind as these sorts of changes are being made… And do give the aforementioned skin a try (if you’re running firefox) via http://skindelicious.blogspot.com/
keith_is_here_2004 | Jul 26 2006 at 4:24 am
Congratulations Les! We could really do with some kind of official del.icio.us forum to discuss new ideas, etc. This blog system, while good for announcements, is terrible for feedback or any other kind of ideas/suggestions. Keith. :D
Jason Heath | Jul 28 2006 at 3:41 am
Congratulations on the new job, Les! I’ve been reading your book and incorporating some of your hacks into my stuff.
James Governor | Jul 28 2006 at 5:35 am
does this mean delicious is going to become even better. super!
Lesard Generators | Jul 28 2006 at 9:09 am
cool, so to hold, good luck to you!
Layonne A Gaddis-Armour | Jul 29 2006 at 11:36 am
online work shop’s and money marketing’s and stock marketing’s and up date
Mark | Aug 16 2006 at 3:17 am
I’ve already put this request to support but I guess it won’t hurt to ask an enthuastic new developer if they want to make it happen. ;)
I’d really, really, *really* like to have more than 255 characters to store notes in when I bookmark a post. I use del.icio.us as a linkblog on my site and would like to have the room to write more than a few of sentences about a bookmark.
On a related note, some limited subset of HTML or markdown in notes would be cool too.
I’ve recently spoken to the crew at ma.gnolia (another social bookmarking service) and they allow notes of unlimited size and have sub-HTML formatting in the pipeline. I don’t want to have to jump ship as I started with del.icio.us ages ago and still think it’s great.
Apart from the 255 character limit on notes.
Keep up the great work!
Demian | Aug 16 2006 at 6:59 pm
Hi!. Congrats!.
I hope you like your new job.
I wander when are we going to see a graphic/web designer around.
Regards,
D. (A graphic/web designer, obviously)
Lioneldenise | Aug 20 2006 at 5:34 am
hello delicious world
it’s wake up time , don’t work too hard , you know that : we’re almost 7 billiard
see you
an old fan
Bob D Caterino | Sep 17 2006 at 3:07 pm
Hi gang, As you already know, I am the author of “Growing up Goomba” wait, what do you mean you don’t know???? Kidding, I wrote the book about the mob that everyone thinks is funny, except the mob. I know am here but going crazy trying to figure out how to navagate this site. Good things come to those who wait and I am weighing two hundred plus these days. Well all kidding aside, I am happy to be here and lets make it a thousand candles. Lets watch this thing get off the ground and fly to no boundries. Lets be the best of the best. People look up to men like me…..Not me but men like me…. Now look up, is it a bird, a plain, no its just that lil old wine maker me. Bob D. Caterino aka Vito Goomba author of “Growing up Goomba” and now a contributer to this fine thingy here.
Shadow Lynn Parker | Dec 10 2006 at 1:41 pm
Hey Les, good job hun. Now is this like google or can I join also? just don’t google my name it may just haunt you for the rest of your lives. Kidding, Les, call me.