There’s a strange trend going around the web that brings me back earlier in my career when we thought software engineering was going the way of widgets or modules. In a nutshell, you basically take a widget here or widget there and integrate them to build a large scale application.
We sorta do this today on some apps, but the modules tend to grow with bug fixes and new features. This usually ends up with a mishmash mash up amalgamation of mush. So much for the software development world.
What seems to work really well are those dirty blue widgets that you can install on just about every content management system. One company that really does it right is Clearspring where they can make a widget just about of anything.
Like I said, I’m getting excited about widgets again!
