Archive for May, 2009
Socorro Moves to New Hardware
What has two quad core 3GHz 64bit CPUs, sixteen gigs of RAM and makes the Socorro users happy? That would be the new hardware that the Socorro system moved to during a six hour operation on Thursday night. The new hardware was recommended by the folks from the aptly named PostgreSQL Experts, Inc after an intense week of consultation and analysis in March earlier this year. After auditing our existing system of hardware and software, it was apparent that we were woefully underpowered for what we were trying to do. While simply tuning PostgreSQL helped ... Read More »
How Download Day Succeeded
The Download Day campaign won a People's Voice Webby Award for online campaigns and a SoFIE award for Most Effective Online Brand Experience. As Mary said, NoBox came up with a great design, and the project was a great success. From where I sat, it was a pretty amazing view. There were many people involved from start to finish who helped make the project a success and I felt this would be a great opportunity to give you an idea of what makes up a project like this at Mozilla.... Read More »
Geolocation in the Browser
Firefox 3.5 makes it super simple to discover the location of a user on your website You can read more about it from Doug Turner or the official Mozilla page, but today I want to look at how to use the new API. The following image is a screenshot of geolocation plus Google maps. If you're running Firefox 3.5, we'll replace that with a real map showing your current position. [caption id="attachment_385" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Geolocation finding me at the Mozilla office."]... Read More »
