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{ Monthly Archives } March 2009

The Tagging Plan for AMO

Firstly, thanks for all the great feedback. Something as seemingly simple as tagging gets complex quickly when thought out and the varied perspectives of the community are always great to have. Allowing full Unicode would let anyone use meaningful tags in their own character sets but would prevent us from offering similar matches and common [...]

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Some considerations when adding Tags to AMO

Tags broke into the limelight around the time “Web 2.0″ was becoming popularized. They provided a simple but effective way to categorize objects and many sites are using them now. Despite their proliferation, I haven’t found any documentation on the internet regarding standards for implementing tags. A tag library exists for CakePHP but it, and [...]

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Differentiate Bugzilla emails?

Bugzilla is an awesome bug tracker that is used by hundreds of companies. I’ve got accounts on several projects’ trackers and I’m sure many others do also. When I get mail from Bugzilla it’s not obvious which project it’s from. My email client (GMail) only shows the “from name” so all I see for these [...]

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