{"id":3892,"date":"2012-10-01T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2012-09-25T22:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T20:53:25","slug":"three-years-of-haxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/three-years-of-haxx\/","title":{"rendered":"Three years of Haxx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haxx.se\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2291\" title=\"Haxx logo\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/haxxlogo.png\" alt=\"Haxx logo\" width=\"255\" height=\"87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/haxxlogo.png 255w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/haxxlogo-150x51.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>At October first, another full year of work at Haxx has been spent since I last summed up the past year (my previous\u00c2\u00a0posts about Haxx&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/haxx-the-first-year\/\">first year<\/a> and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/09\/18\/haxx-the-second-year\/\">second year<\/a>). Three years working for Haxx full-time, and it has been another great year with lots of fun, challenges and us enjoying being independent.<\/p>\n<p>During this year I ended my previous engagement with that large chip company and got a new assignment for the same customer both <a href=\"http:\/\/bjorn.haxx.se\/\">Bj\u00c3\u00b6rn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/linus.haxx.se\/\">Linus<\/a> were working for at the time. It has been a big adventure for me as I dove straight into unknown territories and I&#8217;ve spent my work days since then as a product manager, making an embedded Linux distribution. In this role I&#8217;ve travelled to US, China and South Korea during the year and I&#8217;m serving as a member of an advisory board in a related organization on behalf of my customer! I recently agreed to extending this contract to at least April 2013. Partly due to this new assignment I&#8217;ve not worked very much on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foss-sthlm.se\/\">foss-sthlm<\/a> activities recently, but after the summer I&#8217;ve really made an effort to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foss-sthlm.se\/sep2012.html\">get this back<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foss-sthlm.se\/okt2012.html\">up to speed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-253\" title=\"Birthdaycake\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/birthdaycake.jpg\" alt=\"Birthdaycake\" width=\"220\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later during the year, Linus changed assignment to a new customer when we signed a sort of partnership contract with a leading global embedded software company and he then continued to do a whole series of little projects for them. After the summer Linus has grabbed a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/\">curl<\/a> related projects, partly still in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00c3\u00b6rn stuck around at the same customer during the entire year, and he&#8217;s been working as an engineer and developer in the team that actually makes the product I am a manager for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/the-official-2012-haxx-towel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4082\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"Haxx towel\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Haxx-towel-150x89.jpg\" alt=\"Haxx towel\" width=\"150\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Haxx-towel-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Haxx-towel-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Haxx-towel-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Haxx-towel.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This year we made more Haxx\u00c2\u00a0merchandise. Towels, stickers and jackets have now been sent out in the world to make our name more visible in a few weird corners of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>We visisted FSCONS 2011 and FOSDEM 2012, two really nice conferences for FOSS fans like us and we got to meet a lot of friends and like-minded people there.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to see a demand on the market for highly skilled embedded developers, including embedded Linux and open source related activities. We wouldn&#8217;t mind extending our merry team, so we decided to document a list of requirements of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haxx.se\/career.html\">what to have in order to get hired by us<\/a>. So far not a single person has applied&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At October first, another full year of work at Haxx has been spent since I last summed up the past year (my previous\u00c2\u00a0posts about Haxx&#8217;s first year and\u00c2\u00a0second year). Three years working for Haxx full-time, and it has been another great year with lots of fun, challenges and us enjoying being independent. During this year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/three-years-of-haxx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three years of Haxx<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[322,29,429,323],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haxx","tag-bjorn","tag-embedded-linux","tag-haxx","tag-linus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}