Monthly Archives: November 2009

Google Chrome adds RSS feed notification/preview/subscription via extension

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This may have been around for a while, but I just learned of it today.

If you run the dev version of Google Chrome, you may already be aware that it supports extensions.

In fact when I first found out Google had published a few extensions for eager beta testers to try out, I went and got the rss feed extension.

Unfortunately, even though it showed the icon when a feed was present, clicking it only took you to Google Reader to subscribe to the feed (or so I heard, clicking it in my version of Chrome did nothing)

Google Chrome RSS feed Extension feed availability notification

Google Chrome RSS feed Extension feed availability notification

I am happy to report that with the new version of this extension (1.6.2), clicking on a feed allows you to actually preview the rss feed …
<sound of angels singing HALLEJUYAH />

I can finally test rss feeds I’m coding in Chrome without having to fire up IE8 or Opera (Firefox doesn’t preview either, just tries to subscribe you to live bookmarks … I hate that) and unstar this bug ticket!

Image of Google Chrome RSS feed extension previewing a feed

Image of Google Chrome RSS feed extension previewing a feed

Don’t hit the business growth accelerator just yet Joel!

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Yesterday, Joel Spolsky posted an article about why growing steadily but slowly might not be such a good idea.

When I read it, I had my reservations about it, but I couldn’t express them … the whole idea just sounded wrong?

Well, the guys over at 37Signals issued a rebuttal of Mr Spolsky’s argument, and I have to say … I agree.

The main thing that drives the use of software like Fogz bugz (a bug tracking web application), is how good it is, and how much buzz it generates. The size of your company doesn’t matter if people that matter (developers in this case) are talking about the other guy’s software on twitter, facebook, digg or reddit, and recommending it to every other developer they can find.

Just my 2 cents.

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