Category Archives: Software Development

Stuff about wordpress, firefox, agile and other soft-dev related stuff.

Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner on the chaos and rewards of open source

On March 4th TorCHI hosted Mike Beltzner (blog) who is the Director of Development at Mozilla, though he prefers to call himself the “phenomenologist.”  His talk focused on how Mozilla has harnessed the power of the open source community to build Firefox: managing the chaos of open source and have good ideas rise to the …

March 13, 2009 – 12:02 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

How to get invited to Web 2.x betas

It seems that the most interesting up-and-coming web applications go through a private, invitation-only beta phase before being launched to the public. This was certainly the case with Google Mail, the Yahoo! Mail do-over, and one service that I’m particularly interested in: grono.net. Unfortunately, none of my friends or relatives use that service, so getting …

April 28, 2008 – 00:19 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , | View Comments

Alternatives to WP-Cache

After spending far too much time trying to get WP-Cache2 plugin to work on a very vanilla WordPress installation, I’ve given up on it. I’m sure it’s super amazing when it does work, but in my experience as a competent *nix user, it’s difficult to get working/debug (and silly to remove because of this stupid …

March 1, 2008 – 15:22 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , | View Comments