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 add-ons, 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 add-ons, 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 add-ons, 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 add-ons, 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 add-ons, CakePHP, Django, L10n, Mozilla, PHP, PythonA lot of my time is spent trying to arrange projects and schedules so we can get code shipped in a reasonable time. AMO has the blessing/curse of being broad enough that there is work to do in nearly every area on the site. Once the highest priority areas have people working on them there [...]
Also tagged hindsight, leadershipI was playing around with gource this weekend while watching the TSL 3 Finals and pointed it at addons.mozilla.org’s source repository. I sped it up to display 1 day of commits per second and piped it all to ffmpeg to make a video. It turned out pretty well so here is addons.mozilla.org development so far [...]
Also tagged code, Mozilla, webgetpersonas.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 add-ons, 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 add-ons, L10n, Mozilla, open web, PHP, Python, webIt may be fatuous to write this post before we’ve actually finished the transition from PHP to Python, but I started writing a different post and this is what came out. Sometimes that happens. In January of 2010 we started migrating addons.mozilla.org from CakePHP to Django. It was a controversial decision. Developers were ambivalent to [...]
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