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Mozilla Is Shutting down Firefox OS

14 Dec 2015 Eli Afram

Mozilla Is Shutting down Firefox OS

Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has announced that they are shutting down Firefox OS. The smartphone-oriented operating system has been first publicly demonstrated in February 2012, and it took another year before it was actually shipped to customers.

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Save the Banana –– or don't!

12 Dec 2015 Jennifer Rezny

Save the Banana –– or don't!

It’s not unusual to travel the country and see the same sights from coast to coast: a mall might have many of the same stores, a food court might have the same staples. A pharmacy on one end of the country will generally stock the same items in more or less the same order as a ph

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Humanity and Quality Assurance, Part II

2 Dec 2015 Jennifer Rezny

Humanity and Quality Assurance, Part II

In development, projects ready for client use are called “shippable.” The name sounds nice – it can ship to the client, it’s going to be used – but being shippable does not constitute being done, certainly not to a development team.

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Humanity and Quality Assurance, Part I

21 Nov 2015 Jennifer Rezny

Humanity and Quality Assurance, Part I

I am a QA for a digital wayfinding company –– a world away from WM Studios in scope, despite our shared status as tech companies. QA means quality assurance, but the people charged with maintaining such a thing are called QAs, too. It sounds funny like that: “I am a quality assur

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Tunnelling Solutions

5 Oct 2014 Eli Afram

Tunnelling Solutions

Tunnelling Solutions has sought the services of Webmaster Studios on Graphics & Marketing front, Systems set-up, and Web Development.

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