Experiences at WhoWhere (Lycos)

At WhoWhere, I extended the company's personal home page building software (used by many partners to offer their visitors ways to build their own home pages). I also built a new central registration and profile management front-end that unified all of Lycos' properties under a single sign-on and registration system. I built a new email address book application, including a general application framework supporting multiple brands and multiple languages (we implemented Spanish and English). I was also responsible for writing a reliable messaging receiver for information about what products our customers had purchased via a remote purchasing application and update our local database with this information in a fully automated way....

More than half my team were avid bicyclists, so quite a few of them would arrive at work in biking gear. Of course, most of them would change into normal clothes (ranging from slacks to t-shirts) -- except for one of our lead developers, who seemed to simply live in his bike shorts....