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Friendster shoots the messenger

by Harry Fuecks

Remember Friendster’s switch to PHP?

Well it seems Joyce Park’s reward for announcing the top secret switch from Java/JSP to PHP (and giving Friendster a bunch of free advertising) was firing.

Jeremy Zawodny sums it up…

[Continued…]

Although I still can’t figure out the logic behind firing Joyce, as the “switch to PHP” annoucement was in no way damaging to Friendster, feels less-than-good to have been involved in the blogging frenzy that ultimately seems to have got her being fired.

Hopefully someone’s going to step in with a better job offer quick, given a resume that included books and work on mod_pubsub

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 at 3:17 am, contains 97 words, and is filed under PHP. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

This post has 3 responses so far

  1. Widow Maker Says:
    August 31st, 2004 at 12:29 pm

    That is utter disgusting of Friendster, bollocks to them all :(

    F*** them :D

     
  2. Dean C Says:
    September 4th, 2004 at 5:17 pm

    Yeah, this isn’t a particularly fair dismissal. Then again we don’t know the whole story ;)

     
  3. Satya Says:
    September 24th, 2004 at 12:43 pm

    This is only one of millions questionable employment pratices. Good thing in this case she gets job offers more than the other poor people.

     

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Harry Fuecks

Harry Fuecks

Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.

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