Over four years ago getpersonas.com was built as a gallery to hold Personas – easy to make and use themes for Firefox. A lot of programs were supporting skins at the time, but I don’t know of any which were so simple (literally, move your mouse over an image on a webpage and it’s applied). [...]
Also tagged AMO, Mozilla, personasWhen we converted addons.mozilla.org from PHP to Python I mentioned how deceptively large (lines of code) the site had grown with so many views and features. We’ve since built marketplace.firefox.com on literally the same code base (a decision I hoped to blog about some day, alas) and the line count continues upwards. The MVC paradigm [...]
Also tagged AMO, Marketplace, Mozilla, scalability, testingLast week Greg Koberger finally got me to cross “add a test locale to AMO” off my list – and it turns out it only took a few minutes of actual coding. It sounds like others have had some troubles so I wanted to run through what I did. Firstly, you can see what I’m [...]
Also tagged AMO, code, Django, L10n, PythonLast year we set up landfill.amo to give contributors an easy base to set up the addons.mozilla.org site. Easy is relative here, of course, but it was a big leap over what we had at the time. Kumar leapfrogged that milestone by adding Vagrant configuration scripts to our repository. Now you can have a running [...]
Also tagged AMO, Mozilla, testing, webThis is just a short note to recognize the long coming milestone of PHP being effectively off[1] on addons.mozilla.org. We started the migration in 2010 and just finished it up a couple weeks ago. After the major pages were completed it was hard to budget time for all the minor details we had implemented since [...]
Also tagged AMO, CakePHP, Django, L10n, Mozilla, PHP, Pythongetpersonas.com was started as a labs project in 2008. The plan was to get a website up and running to show off what lightweight themes were and see if they got any traction. If the site became popular, we’d merge it in to AMO in six or ten months and everyone would go back to [...]
Also tagged AMO, Mozilla, personasAnyone who has tried to set up AMO knows it’s no walk in the park even with the respectable amount of documentation. There are two big stumbling blocks: the database is large and complex, and a portion of the site functionality is still in PHP. Django’s syncdb can make a database, but the relationships in [...]
Also tagged AMO, L10n, Mozilla, open web, PHP, Python, webOften on complex pages with many assets it can be easy to overlook assets which don’t load. Usually they are minor JS, CSS, or tracking pixels which aren’t noticed until you’ve spent way too long trying to track down the problem (or a month later you log into your stats dashboard to discover you haven’t [...]
Also tagged builder, code, Mozilla, scripts, webThe add-on verification suite launched a few months ago and has been refined with each subsequent milestone. We’ve changed what it searches for based on feedback and our own findings and earlier this month we made it available to anyone on AMO, not just a hosted add-on’s authors. The framework was written in an extensible [...]
Also tagged AMO, L10n, MozillaThe flight from Portland to San Jose is just about the right length to write some scripts to analyze a bunch of data, make a pretty graph, and then write a blog post drawing fairly obvious conclusions. Someone on IRC said they were interested in the top search terms being used on addons.mozilla.org so here [...]
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