‘Community’ Archives
Today! Mozilla Webdev “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on Reddit!
As promised, today, a bunch of Mozilla Webdevs are on reddit to answer your questions! For more information, check out the announcement. Click here to get to the Mozilla Webdev "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit. We will be there from 10am Central European Time to the evening, Pacific time, so in total about 18 hours. We hope this way people in most time zones will get the chance to get their questions answered. Come by and ask us all you never dared to ask but always wanted to know! Read More »
Coming up: Webdev “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on reddit
Update, Jan 20: The Reddit AMA is going on today! Click here to join us and ask questions! As web developers at Mozilla, we take pride in making web applications that are used by millions of people every day. We work hard to promote the Open Web, both by showing off what the latest in web technology can do and by actively developing our projects in the open: as open-source projects on github. Whenever we go to meetups, conferences, or chat with community members, people ask all sorts of questions, like: How do you make sure your ... Read More »
Guest Post: “I want to contribute, how do I start?”
Preface This is guest post from one of webdev's awesomesauce community contributors: Nigel Babu. nigelb contributes to a bunch of Mozilla's web apps including Firefox Input and Socorro. He writes about Mozilla and open source on his blog and hangs out on #webdev on IRC -- where we often talk about motorcycles. At Mozcamp Asia, Tim Watts and I talked about contributing to Mozilla Webdev. When I met Tim, he asked me how I got started and what were some of the challenges I faced. This blog post is a summary of those challenges and a few solutions to help ... Read More »
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Steve Jobs died today. We -- that is, the collective world of computer scientists, designers, and I dare say anyone who tried to make people's lives easier through technology -- have truly lost a mentor, a visionary, an examplar. I'll leave everyone a bit of time to be sad, to mourn, to feel deflated. But let's not dwell on the fact that this man was taken from us too soon. For a man like Jobs, death would always come "too soon". Let's remember a man who steered his company until his near final days. A man who was forced out of his ... Read More »
Meet the LARPERs
With the launch of our Mozillians.org community phonebook, I wanted to talk about it’s unusual data access model. Typical Web Apps Most web applications use a single shared authentication account to access data. Users authenticate to the site as themselves, but the web app has business logic to control who sees what from the database. The code has a shared username, say web-rw and a shared password to connect to a MySQL database. With the phonebook, we want to eventually support fine-grained privacy controls, much like G+ Circles or Facebook Profile settings. Profile information is sensitive, as we will eventually add t-shirt size, ... Read More »
Developing with Vagrant, Puppet, and playdoh
Mozilla is a large, highly visible, open source organization, with loads of contributors who commit code to, document, and localize our products. A big part of our success is our community, and our web apps are a big part of our product base. Logistically, it's very easy to commit code to our web apps. Most of them are hosted on GitHub: all you need to do is fork our code, commit your changes, and send us a pull request. We can review your contributions, comment on your code, discuss the changes, and (hopefully) merge in your awesome new code. Most ... Read More »
