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And a happy New Year...

By Fredrik Andersson. Thursday, 20. December 2007, 19:02:57

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It's been a good year, and a privilege to work with such a great community! Thanks to all My Opera members, you rock! :smile::happy:

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! We're taking a short holiday vacation now but we'll be back in January with the previously announced update. It's worth waiting for...

Until then... enjoy this rare collectors edition photo of the My Opera crew... :wink:

Monty Python

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New guys!

By Vetle Roeim. Friday, 20. April 2007, 14:44:33

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As you might have seen on the about page or in the picture from the latest major release, we have some new people on the MyOpera development team. You might have noticed them:

Sverre

After working here at Opera part time for a couple of years, mostly with widgets in some other department, Sverre finally completed his masters degree in computer science, and decided to come work with us full time!

He's been quick to get up to speed and now has his hands full with fixing bugs and improving MyOpera for you guys. monkey On occasion he can be seen wandering the halls complaining about Perl or his cellphone drowning in beer.

Estéban

As our dedicated (more or less) QA guy, he's responsible for testing, following up bugs and issues, and generally poke holes in all our great ideas. :wink:

He is a native of Gran Canaria, which ironically is probably one of Norwegians favourite vacation spots. We're happy to say that Gran Canaria isn't only a good place to go on vacation, it seems that it's also a good place to find good QA.

I'm sure you'll see more of these guys in the time to come, and the MyOpera team will grow even more... Btw, we're hiring!

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What's this? Press releases?!

By Vetle Roeim. Sunday, 18. March 2007, 12:37:32

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Hi, Vetle the Middle Manager here... I like to meddle once in a while, this time to say something about the recent press releases.

Press Releases

New as of this year, is that we're actually issuing press releases when something cool happens with the Opera Community. We're so proud of it, that we're dragging it out of the basement and displaying it proudly for everyone to see. This will put more pressure on us to deliver an even better community site, but I'm confident we're up to the task, and you can expect only good things in the months/years to come.

T-Mobile

But ... Because we're so fracking good, people are starting to take notice. Actually, multi-national telco operators are starting to take notice. We're proud to welcome T-Mobile to the Opera Community. From March 15 - 21 you can meet them at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, demoing photo blogging with Opera Mini and the Opera Community.

What does this mean? Of course, the Opera Community developers will continue to work hard to bring you the best community site in the world, and we're still focused on you, our users. In addition, we'll also have a multi-national corporation breathing down our necks. This'll be an interesting year, indeed.

New guys

Btw, we have some new guys on our team, stay tuned for more information about them later. We're also getting a new guy from Italy in May, so things are looking up. :smile:

Anyway, I'll get back to managing ...

chuck norris

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But We Ain't Done Yet

By Ole Kasper. Thursday, 8. March 2007, 13:26:26

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Finally, we're able to show the world what we have been tinkering with the last few months. Since before Christmas, actually.

We didn't really plan for it to be so long between updates, however since Fredrik went totally overboard with a complete site redesign, we figured we might as well do some heavy-lifting under the hood as well.

Besides a new look, this release brings with it some new features, and some forward-thinking database backend optimisations which we hope will relieve some stress further down the road. A proper changelog will follow as soon as we've had time to fix the most obivous bugs still left :wink:

Thanks for waiting while we updated. Hope you like at least some of the new stuff :spock:

the team
Back, left to right: Fredrik (design/frontend code), Espen (community management), Michael (design/frontend code), Sverre (backend code/javascript), Ole Kasper (backend code/backend project management), Vetle (manager -- dunno what he's doing here? P:), William (backend code).
Front, left to right: Kjetil (backend code), Esteban (quality assurance)



OK, back to work. We need to start on the NextBigThing. P:

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