Archives

January 2012

• Better Know a WebDev: Greg Koberger aka gkoberger
• Better Know a WebDev: Will Kahn-Greene aka willkg
• Today! Mozilla Webdev “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on Reddit!
• Better Know a WebDev: James Socol
• Timing AMO user experience
• Better Know a WebDev: Mike Morgan (a.k.a. Morgamic)
• Coming up: Webdev “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on reddit

December 2011

• Bringing Firefox Alive with Popcorn.js
• An optimization story with Django – one thousand times faster!

November 2011

• Guest Post: “I want to contribute, how do I start?”
• Git: Using topic branches and interactive rebasing effectively
• Scrubbing your Django database
• Using localtunnel to do web development on actual mobile devices

October 2011

• From 80 Seconds to 6: Optimizing Our Asset Compression
• Open sourcing your Django site
• What is Shipyard?
• Installing Node.js On Windows
• Ada Lovelace Day: Sheila Howell
• i18njs : Internationalize Your JavaScript With A Little Help From JSON And The Server
• Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
• Meet the LARPERs
• Developing with Vagrant, Puppet, and playdoh

September 2011

• PyLadies and DjangoCon 2011
• Mozilla Webdev At PyCodeConf

August 2011

• Email Unsubscribe Links
• How Apache & Some Magic Helped Move Mozilla to .org
• Knowing what you want can make a huge difference (…with pymongo)
• Mozilla interns: nothing but the best
• Pragmatic growth: from 2 to 40 in 4 years
• Changes to data in Socorro
• Webdev at Open Source Bridge

July 2011

• Scaling Django to a Global Audience with Playdoh
• Let’s write some docs
• What do you want the web to be?

June 2011

• Approaches to Mobile Web Development Part 4 – A Hybrid Approach
• Mozilla Web Development is Hiring

May 2011

• Approaches to Mobile Web Development Part 3 – Responsive Design
• Approaches to Mobile Web Development Part 2 – Separate Sites
• Cha-Cha-Changes in Web Production
• Approaches to Mobile Web Development Part 1 – What is Mobile Friendliness?

April 2011

• Enabling Community Incubation
• A Humane Python Test Runner
• Streamlining Web Development at Mozilla Without Sacrificing Quality

March 2011

• Socorro’s Community
• What is a Webdev Steward?
• HTML5 Form Validation on SUMO
• DataStore – an abstraction layer for storing data and processing requests

February 2011

• Introducing Perf-O-Matic 2.0

January 2011

• Python scoping: understanding LEGB
• The new Socorro
• Socorro Data Center Migration – Downtime
• Mozilla Website Archive

December 2010

• Firefox Input 2.1 with Idea Submission

November 2010

• Avoiding Catastrophic Backtracking in Apache RewriteRule Patterns

September 2010

• The new stats pages on AMO
• Django and AJAX image uploads

August 2010

• from zope import django: persistence
• RequireJS and Juicer
• New Support Questions on SUMO
• The future of crash reporting

July 2010

• RegisterProtocolHandler Enhancing the Federated Web
• Moving Socorro to HBase

June 2010

• Flash Updates in Firefox
• Socorro Release and Downtime – Thursday June 10
• Firefox Blocklisting: the quest for Safe and Happy
• django-mozilla-product-details, because short library names are for wimps

May 2010

• Would you like to know more?
• Socorro: Mozilla’s Crash Reporting System
• Behind the Scenes of the Plugin Check Page
• What happens when you click the Firefox download button?

March 2010

• getpersonas.com status

February 2010

• New Python Library: Bleach
• New Django libraries: Cache Machine and multidb
• GetFirebug.com redesign launched!

January 2010

• Got Data? Need Search? Use Sphinx
• Making getpersonas.com blazing fast
• Rebuilding the Plugin Directory
• getpersonas.com 2.1 has launched!

November 2009

• CSS Gradients Tutorials
• Mozilla Launches Facebook Security Quiz
• AMO Changes for 2010

October 2009

• Plugin Checker Launched
• New PluginCheck Page Needs Your Help

September 2009

• Attention all web testing gurus

August 2009

• Download Stats move to mozilla.com
• Mozilla Service Week – First L10n Release
• Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 3: Challenges for Tools
• Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 2: Organizational Challenges
• Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 1: What’s Wrong?
• HTML5 Audio Soundboard

July 2009

• Fun with Tooltips
• Contribute to Mozilla Service Week
• Cesium 0.1 Released!
• Improving Accessibility Through ARIA

June 2009

• Use Sprites Wisely
• Announcing Mozilla Service Week

May 2009

• Socorro Moves to New Hardware
• How Download Day Succeeded
• Geolocation in the Browser

April 2009

• Socorro Dumps Wave Good-bye to the Relational Database
• Browser Support

March 2009

• CSS Spriting Tips
• Crash Reporter Homepage Reskin

February 2009

• CSS3 Awesome Test
• Cross-Browser Inline-Block
• Native JSON in Firefox 3.1
• Graph Server Re-Write
• The Curious Case of the Giant Scrollbar
• Socorro Partitioning Rolled Back

January 2009

• Socorro Database Partitioning is Coming
• Enter the LizardFeeder

December 2008

• Top Crashers By Url and MTBF
• Socorro wireframes
• Three Weeks with the New Socorro File System

November 2008

• Socorro Project Update

October 2008

• AMO API Fennec Support
• Crash Stats updated with Flot
• Socorro’s File System Storage

September 2008

• Socorro Database Migration
• The Crashing Edge
• AMO Statistics and CDN Update

July 2008

• Socorro Delays

June 2008

• Socorro Database Updates
• Syndicating Download Day Stats
• Webdev Brainstorm
• AMO 3.4.3 delayed until June 12th

May 2008

• AMO 3.4.3 update scheduled for June 5th
• AMO 3.4.2 update scheduled for tonight (Thursday)

April 2008

• AMO 3.4.1 update scheduled for Thursday
• Socorro Processor Updates
• Crash Analysis: now in Open Source flavor
• AMO 3.2.1
• Socorro Updates

March 2008

• AMO 3.2 SVN Stats
• Bringing Sexy Back to AMO

February 2008

• Hungry Hungry Add-ons Manager
• AMO 3.2 Preview
• AMO Update r10238

December 2007

• Second thoughts on dynamic content

September 2007

• AMO: Developer Replies to Reviews

August 2007

• Bouncer Updates

July 2007

• Socorro Updates
• Tips for Localization

June 2007

• Download Counts Halted
• Sharing Ideas Without Having to Think
• Kubla is dead! Long live Kubla!
• Triple Play (that’s what they say in baseball, right?)

May 2007

• Partitioning Fun in PostgreSQL
• Tagging in SVN

April 2007

• Teaching CakePHP to be Multilingual (part 3)
• AMO Updates

March 2007

• It’s Aliiiiive!
• all pre-existing add-ons restored (made public)
• Reviewing, the Sandbox, and “missing” add-ons
• AMO Site Updated, Rolled Back
• AMO Deployment bumped to March 22nd
• AMO Deployment on March 22nd
• Review Queue Completed

February 2007

• Developer Control Panel to be Locked
• Remora update and plan
• AMO Deployment This Week
• AMO v3 (Remora) Delay
• AMO v3 (Remora) launch delayed 24 hours
• AMO 3.0 Beta – Public Preview
• Teaching CakePHP to be Multilingual (part 2)
• Is that a Kubla on your shoulder?
• AMO Preview Updates

January 2007

• AMO Preview Updates
• Teaching CakePHP to be Multilingual (part 1)
• What can Airbag do for you?
• AMO Preview Updates
• Localizing AMO3 (part 1: overview and static)
• AMO 3.0 Alpha – Public Preview