Day 1 as Developer Community Manager at Clearspring
Hi, my name is Justin Thorp and yesterday was my first day as Developer Community Manager at Clearspring. Upon entering our office complex in the morning, I was greeted by our local fire fighters. Our office was without power because apparently a tree fell on a nearby power substation.
When you’re a Web-based startup like Clearspring, it’s pretty hard to get any work done when there’s no power. So what do you do? You setup a mini-golf course around the cubicles and offices. It was fun and a great way to get to know some of my co-workers.
Here at Clearspring, I’ll be taking over the community responsibilities from Will Meyer who is now focused on the core platform engineering.
Over the next few weeks and months I look forward to getting to know as many of you as possible either here on the blog, on the forum, or even in person.
The crew here at Clearspring HQ are working hard on making the best widget platform. I’d love to hear any feedback or thoughts that you guys have about how we can make it better.
Feel free to get a hold of me personally. Drop me a comment on this blog post or e-mail me personally at justin AT clearspring DOT com.
Any of you have any crazy first day on the job stories?
January 31st, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Maybe not as crazy as yours, but back in 1994 or 1995. I was looking for a Web-something job (names were not that defined at this time.). I sent an email with a link to my resume online to a couple of companies to find a job. I had a phone interview with the boss looking at my resume online at the same time.That was quite new at this time. It was on Friday. Then he asked me, if I could start right away. I said could we meet first face to face. He said “yes. sure at 8am, Monday morning.” At 8am I was in the office, at 9am I was on the desk in the office starting to work. I signed the contract at 2pm.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Justin – I’m liking the ClearSpring widget platform, having taken a 5+ year-old Flash-based game and turned it into a Facebook application in about 10 minutes! Would like to know how to get the SEO wrapper html to be included in the facebook app… is that possible?
February 2nd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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February 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Awesome! Speaking for developers on the outside, it’s great to have you Justin! We’re looking forward to the additional help you will bring to the community!
Josh
EAI Technologies
http://www.eaiti.com