Browser Add-on Terminology is Broken. Can it be Fixed?

Ever since I started developing browser add-ons for clients, I’ve battled with the confusing terminology used to describe them. A typical conversation goes something like this: Client: How’s the plugin development going? Me: Extension development. When we started running some Google ads, I noticed the same phenomenon at work. I picked a bunch of keywords [...]

Off Trac

Sometimes there seem to be more ticketing/defect-tracking systems than there are development teams who use them. I worked for a while on a project where we started with Trac. Some developers were unhappy with that so we switched to Redmine. Then someone suggested that Jira would be a better option, but it underwhelmed, especially considering [...]

Will the Web Browser Replace the Operating System Desktop?

Like most of geekdom, I sat transfixed in front of my computer yesterday, first following Engadget’s live blog of Apple’s WWDC keynote and then watching the video of the event. A large part of Apple’s mind-bending success over the past few years can be attributed to the effort they have put into improving the user [...]