Smart Marketing, Dumb Marketing

July 31st, 2007 by Leons Petrazickis

My Firefox upgraded itself and I saw this:

Smart Marketing

Ah, the Firefox crowd is encouraging casual users to discover Firefox extensions. Firefox extensions are a great way to get people addicted to Firefox. That’s pretty smart.

Dumb Marketing

And, naturally, the extension that the casual crowd needs most is Firebug. Not an extension for music, or photos, or weather. An extension for web development. That’s pretty dumb.

Disclaimer: I use Opera.

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Why Dojo?

July 9th, 2007 by Leons Petrazickis

Dojo Toolkit | Why Dojo?

Personally:

  • Widgets are very handy to have when you are working on web or intranet apps.
  • Code pedigree is very nice to have when you are trying to release a project at a big company.
  • Once you wrap your head around it, the architecture of Dojo is very logical and predictable.

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