Office Space

By Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO. Friday, September 7, 2012 2:48:13 PM

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Last year, we gave you a chance to see a day in the life of an Opera employee. A few months ago, we changed our location and got a new office. We now present to you a sneak peek into Opera's new office life. Enjoy

Welcome to Opera's new office located in Nydalen, Oslo, Norway!

If you need a break from work, the surrounding area is a lovely place to relax.

Yes, of course you can swim here!

This is Erlend Drevdal Hausken. He's responsible for marketing and communications at Opera. He enjoys hiking, romantic comedies and red wine.

Sh*t just got real: System administration. Notice all the stuff. That's a lot of stuff.

No desk is complete until you have at least three geeky items. In this case: Duff beer, Nintendo Mints and a stuffed Yoshi toy.

Here we see Rian (who works in finance) doing some super important work.

Christian works as a user interface designer for Opera. He's working on something. Not sure why the evil grin. devil

Some of you might recognize Andreas from the My Opera development team. His interests are gym, tan and laundry.

Meet Oleg from Ukraine. He's famous for awesome interface and web designs, eating huge lunches and overall being a good guy. He's also active on Twitter.

This is Hans. Usually, he codes brilliant lines of code for the addons catalog, but here he is busy... doing... something else.

Being a developer at Opera requires massive headsets. Øyvind's headset is among the biggest one at Opera and he is not afraid to show it off. Go Øyvind!

Anne-Lise and Esteban entangled in a discussion over a technical problem.

Esteban's solution to any code problem: MORE COWBELL!

Espen Myhre showing off how 3D browsing should be done: With 3D glasses.

The nerdiest superhero ever: Captain Drupal.

"Just look at the picture! He has to be his father!"

Espen Myhre is not familiar with tab stacking.

Cosimo is one of many extremely talented engineers at Opera. What makes him one of the best is that he has a little blanket for his keyboard.

Under the blanket we find a keyboard that definitely has a feeling of epic.

Petter Nilsen shows off a new Opera build with a touch user interface.

Drag. Drop. Looking good!

Making Web Pages Work Better in Opera MiniOpera at Night

Comments

Tamil Friday, September 7, 2012 3:03:36 PM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Good.gif -

Nicolas Mendozanicomen Friday, September 7, 2012 3:09:01 PM

Nice wink

Martin KadlecBS-Harou Friday, September 7, 2012 3:17:03 PM

I see him, I see him everywhere (if you know what i mean).

JarradAkdor1154 Friday, September 7, 2012 3:17:45 PM

looks like there are more than a couple of linux installs there.. good to see smile

Richard Arthurarthric Friday, September 7, 2012 3:18:07 PM

I would work to this when i got 18 bigsmile

Cristiancristianer Friday, September 7, 2012 3:29:17 PM

WOW, beautiful offices. cheers

d4rkn1ght Friday, September 7, 2012 3:37:02 PM

cool up

mubaidr Friday, September 7, 2012 3:40:31 PM

cheers

Giulia Mariagiulia-maria Friday, September 7, 2012 4:04:21 PM

cool!

alekksander Friday, September 7, 2012 4:28:13 PM

Very cool... we need more like this!
where is Erlends couch from? i want one!

Deyandyolia Friday, September 7, 2012 5:19:38 PM

some parks, some recreation... some great place for great people wink

Magnorodian Friday, September 7, 2012 5:37:38 PM

Very Cool!! headbang

Phillip Robert O'Conner wii4little Friday, September 7, 2012 5:38:36 PM

Nice Digs And Pic.Is There Anyway I Come Over There And Relax (And Play) Over There.

Jurriaan Ruitenbergjurriaanr Friday, September 7, 2012 5:45:56 PM

Props to Øyvind for his mastering regular expressions book. No developer can live without

Coyotee Friday, September 7, 2012 6:17:55 PM

17 Ron Swansons (Some people have all the fun) lol

ondrejandrej Friday, September 7, 2012 7:09:33 PM


I realize you are using KDE! So am I!

Yeni Setiawansandalian Friday, September 7, 2012 7:26:18 PM

Awesome! The best part is blank keyboard up

Browsemrbrowsegierza Friday, September 7, 2012 8:00:52 PM

great, pics so refreshing bigsmile

D1sasterp1ece Friday, September 7, 2012 9:07:29 PM

Gosh, I dream of working for Opera someday! It looks like nothing short of awesome stuff!

/\/\€€Tmvthakar Friday, September 7, 2012 9:08:02 PM

Going for Software engineering. Wait for me, Opera; I'll come to you!

Richard Arthurarthric Friday, September 7, 2012 9:21:58 PM

Sweeet smile some think pads

Brian Francis PretoriusBrianFrances Friday, September 7, 2012 9:50:42 PM

Just don't spill coffee on that keyboard, anyone doing that would be in serious trouble.
Nice photos, Thanks.

Kr0pr0Xkroprox Saturday, September 8, 2012 1:12:55 AM

what can i say??? as cool & awesome as the browser!!! love the way u work!!! xD
btw, i liked Cosimo's desktop a lot and the keyboard is uber awesome!!!

ErikshaktiIIIgta Saturday, September 8, 2012 3:18:24 AM

very interesting and cool pics ! thank you for sharing, Opera is really great and has style... Øyvind's chair and headset and Cosimo's blank keyboard for me bigsmile

go Opera ! ninja

Jorge Eduardoedocastillo Saturday, September 8, 2012 5:12:03 AM

I want a big "O" for my laptop sad

earth01 Saturday, September 8, 2012 6:42:15 AM

What's the keyboard's brand ? eek (the black one with the red escape key)

Nikki StrømsnesTheIncredibleNix Saturday, September 8, 2012 11:54:13 AM

@earth01: Pretty sure that is a Das Keyboard. You can have it configured with a red escape key and green WASD. http://store.daskeyboard.com/

ir193 Saturday, September 8, 2012 2:11:45 PM

"doing some super important work"
what I can see is a Solitaire
p

Fathima Rifqa GhaffarIshq40 Saturday, September 8, 2012 5:43:16 PM

Pretty COOL!!!heart wizard sing

xpghosted Saturday, September 8, 2012 7:06:28 PM

is everyone using gvim?

Mustafa OğuzinBusteR Saturday, September 8, 2012 7:59:40 PM

We can call this blog post as "Opera Family Album"

Caroloperainchicago Saturday, September 8, 2012 9:20:00 PM

Very nice! Everyone looks so comfy in new surroundings. love

YongShunyongshun Sunday, September 9, 2012 4:52:10 AM

whatda fuq is with the keyboard?!?!?!

JohnWilliamGodward Sunday, September 9, 2012 6:55:07 AM

Beautiful landscape but I think it's nice to have some summer flowers in the garden.

QuHno Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:53:38 AM

Petter and the mirror of darkness (on the right side). I wonder what questions he asks bigsmile

Vasudevan Mvasuwrath Sunday, September 9, 2012 10:13:20 AM

Thats an amazing place to work. smile

For those who want to know which keyboard that is, My best guess would be a Filco Majestouch2 Ninja Tenkeyless. Amazing stuff.

virtualsky Sunday, September 9, 2012 1:47:31 PM

That's wonderful! So, where's the Commodore 64 lab? wink

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Sunday, September 9, 2012 8:17:13 PM

Ha, I see myself in one of those pictures. I am a complete blurry blob of course but that just means it is a good picture of me.

Risanto robocop48id Monday, September 10, 2012 3:53:52 AM

Wow .. Nice

knight

antpmdesawangersz Monday, September 10, 2012 10:16:05 AM

yikes wowwww....
nice....
i likes this.....worried

alekksander Monday, September 10, 2012 12:11:23 PM

seriously guys, where can i get a couch like that?

there is a fire truck next to Your office at google street view. What happen there? puppy drown?

I need a namequangltm Monday, September 10, 2012 3:08:58 PM

http://files.myopera.com/EspenAO/albums/12588812/_MG_0128.JPG
I want it cry

http://files.myopera.com/EspenAO/albums/12588812/_MG_0082.jpg
Very important person do a important job p , anybody see how tabs does he open ?

Rian (who works in finance) doing some super important work.
play this game is a hard-work (really)
bigsmile

milcel Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:49:28 AM

Nice oooooooooooooooooooo smile

logytech Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:44:19 PM

just curiosity...
what happens on old Opera HQ Basement?
Sold it?

BTW good lucks and have a very nice outside day bro....

How big this area is it?

Edit:

When i see the Google Map, I see it now it is so big !
I hope I can works there because it is so relaxing.....

From Malaysia!bigsmile yes

yop plavideobuzz Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:09:40 PM

nice up

logytech Wednesday, September 12, 2012 12:45:17 AM

i see almost Dev teams have two monitor. why Dev teams can not make a Opera properly support for 2 plus more monitor?

Strange right? the other browser support it the long ago. i hope new office can make more brilliant browser.
Well done have a new place to works!party coffee

Cosimo Strepponecstrep Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:42:40 AM

Originally posted by vasuwrath:

For those who want to know which keyboard that is, My best guess would be a Filco Majestouch2 Ninja Tenkeyless. Amazing stuff.


Bingo! For everyone wondering, my keyboard is indeed a Filco Majestouch2 TenKeyless (with no numeric keypad) Ninja (with blank keys). I also customised it with a red ESC keycap, and replaced the Windows keys with no Windows logo :-)

For the real estimators of mechanical keyboards, I'll say that it's equipped with red cherry keys, the less noisy among the mechanical (I think). It took a while to choose this keyboard, and geekhack.org helped me :-)

Diego Schild Smithstekonaza Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:53:30 PM

Wow! A VERY nice place.

And Espen Myhre, do you use Orkut? o.O

Sami Serolaserola Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:34:22 AM

Very nice http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -

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