Building off the success and fun that was had with the Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest Mozilla has just launched a new Community Store. This store will let anyone upload shirt designs and print custom Mozilla shirts. If you’ve got good taste but designing isn’t up your alley you’re welcome to browse and customize the [...]
Tagged L10n, MozillaLooking over what I’ve written about Verbatim I realize that I’ve never talked about the overall plan on here. Even though we’re well into it at this point it doesn’t hurt to review. The original plan for Verbatim was to branch Pootle and continue to merge code between the branch and trunk as features were [...]
Tagged hindsight, L10n, Mozilla, VerbatimSQLite only supports a simple set of data types and the only one that really matters is “INTEGER PRIMARY KEY” so you can have it auto-increment. In fact, by default, I can declare the columns as anything I want and it doesn’t even throw a warning. sqlite> CREATE TABLE t2(c1 wtf, c2 yomama); sqlite> INSERT [...]
Tagged o rly, SQLiteI got the chance to try out the latest version of Shredder last night which recently celebrated it’s Alpha 3 release fixing an impressive number of bugs. Among the heap of bugs is our very own bug 262319; “sort by thread fails to resort on new message.” Two weeks shy of celebrating it’s fourth birthday [...]
Tagged add-ons, mail, ThreadBubble, ThunderbirdI think any good manager will tell you that looking back over the choices you’ve made is an important step to improvement. In an effort to improve myself (and help anyone in a similar situation) I wrote this post with a few thoughts about branching an open source project (in this case branching Pootle to [...]
Tagged hindsight, Mozilla, open web, VerbatimLast week I connected Verbatim to the addons.mozilla.org SVN repository and with great help from #verbatim on IRC the blocker bugs have been ironed out. Special thanks to Rubén Martín (Nukeador) for making the maiden commit. The server is a bit more unstable than I’d like[1] but it’s usable. If you’d like to give it [...]
Tagged L10n, Mozilla, VerbatimVerbatim is the second project I’ve been the lead on recently where the requirements included people committing to SVN as themselves via the application. At first glance this means storing the authentication tokens of the user in plain text since we’ll need to pass them along to SVN whenever they commit. I wasn’t happy with [...]
Tagged code, Mozilla, security, SVN, VerbatimI’m upgrading some code I wrote to talk to a new version of the Citrix NetScaler‘s API. The NetScaler’s manuals (that’s right, plural) weigh in at a combined 1114 pages so documentation isn’t a problem and their implementation is a breeze using WSDL over SOAP. However, some of the core changes left me scratching my [...]
Tagged caching, code, Mozilla, scalabilityI’ll be in Morocco at the end of next week and noticed there wasn’t a single Mozilla Party in the country! There were over 36,000 download pledges though, so there must be Firefox supporters somewhere. If you’re in Morocco and want to meet up send me a message. I’ll see if I can get Mary [...]
Tagged L10n, MozillaAdding context to the .po files on AMO has been one of our challenges since we started localizing the site. The solution we decided to use, place holder strings, is non-standard and can be difficult to use for someone that is used to how gettext normally works. The localization tool we’ve decided to use for [...]
Tagged AMO, L10n, Mozilla, Verbatim