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Better Know a WebDev: Greg Koberger aka gkoberger

Welcome to another thrilling installment of your favorite, and only, recurring series on this blog: Better Know a WebDev! This is a special week, as we're featuring someone who just moved from web development into a product role with our Add-ons team. Give a big welcome and congratulations to Greg Koberger! What do you do at Mozilla? For the past year and a half, I've been a web developer working on the Mozilla Add-ons site. I wrote both front- and back-end code, and every once in a while I managed ...

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Better Know a WebDev: Will Kahn-Greene aka willkg

Welcome back to the third epic installment of Better Know a WebDev! We started with our illustrious director, Mike Morgan, and then someone volunteered that the chronicler, yours truly, should be up next. But now we're just going to randomly hop around through our entire web dev family. And there's a lot of us! Up this week, put your internet hands together for Will Kahn-Greene! What do you do at Mozilla? I'm a software engineer in the webdev group that works on the software that runs support.mozilla.org. That entails working directly on ...

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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!

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Better Know a WebDev: James Socol

Welcome back to our Better Know a WebDev series! This week, we're looking at, well, me! What do you do at Mozilla? I'm the Community Platforms Manager. I'm here to help the people on the Support, MDN, and Community Tools engineering teams turn out great products and grow as engineers. Since I get to work with a number of different projects, I have the opportunity to look for ways these applications can work together and create a better experience for our users and better data for our engineers. Any ...

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Timing AMO user experience

There are lots of ways to measure the performance of a site. On addons.mozilla.org we measure a few of them: how long it takes to render pages, the cache performance and responsiveness for content delivery networks globally. But with the advent of the navigation timing API in Firefox 7 we've been able to add the most important measurement of all - the actual performance in the browser. Along with a few other Mozilla sites, we've been using pystatsd and Graphite for a while. This produces useful graphs of the site health and performance. For example, this graph ...

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