I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
I came upon a new (for me) term recently: evolutionary prototyping. This is in contrast to the rapid or throwaway prototype.
Another term for the rapid prototype: the “close-ended …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
I’ve managed to mostly avoid talking about what we’re making here. Perhaps shyness, we (the PageShot team) don’t yet know where it’s going, or if …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
I teeter between thinking big about PageShot and thinking small. The benefit of thinking small is: how can this tool provide value to people who wouldn’t know if …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
In a presentation The Revolution Will Be Annotated, Dan Whaley begins with a very high-minded justification for annotation: that it is essential for our existence that we act wisely …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
Generally at Mozilla we want to engage and activate our community to further what we do. Because all our work is open source, and we default to open on …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
I’ve been reading the Early History Of Smalltalk, notes by Alan Kay, and this small note jumped out at me:
Another late-binding scheme that is already necessary is …
Conway’s Law states:
organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations
I’ve always read this as an accusation: we are doomed to recreate the structure of our organizations in the structure of software projects. And further: projects …
At some point in a podcast series by Seth Godin he advises that you never give your house for collateral on a loan for your business. Of course you don’t want to lose your house, but that wasn’t his reason. If you put your house on the line …
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And now for something entirely technical!
We’ve had a contributor from Outernet exploring ways of using PageShot for capturing pages for distribution on their network. Outernet satellite-based content …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
We’re in the process of reviewing the KPI (Key Performance Indicators) for Firefox Hello (relatedly I joined the Firefox Hello team as engineering manager in October). Mozilla is …