I 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 AMO, Mozilla, 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 add-ons, builder, Mozilla, scripts, webI have a lot of files on my computer. Email archives, personal documents, stuff for work, photos I’ve taken…the list goes on – I’m sure most people reading this are in a similar boat. On occasion I’ve found some files to be missing or corrupt which is disturbing but is probably something to be expected. [...]
Also tagged Python, scripts, securityI use split windows, both horizontally and vertically, in Vim all the time. I’ve always wanted to be able to split the window and then start a command line shell within that window but up until now that has just been a dream. My friend sent me a link to conque this morning which I’m [...]
Also tagged blah blah, Mozilla, open webAMO has had an on-again off-again relationship with unit tests. A little over a year ago we had a thousand unit tests that sort of, mostly, ran. The problem is, PHP unit testing just isn’t as good as it should be. CakePHP relies on SimpleTest, one of the main PHP test suites. It worked relatively [...]
Also tagged AMO, CakePHP, Django, Mozilla, Python, testingIt’s time to hail another milestone for AMO in our epic push for improvements in 2010. This time I’m happy to announce our Hudson continuous integration server which has been humming along for a few months. Hudson Integration Screenshot. Click to enlarge. AMO is the first Mozilla Webdev site to use continuous integration, and it’s [...]
Also tagged AMO, Mozilla, statistics, testingThe first front end cache we used on AMO was the Citrix NetScaler. I’ve complained about it’s API before but apparently never announced the library I wrote to purge items from the cache. So, a little late, but I have some reusable PHP code that will talk to your NetScaler and let you expire objects. [...]
Also tagged AMO, caching, PHP, Python, scalabilityI reached my hand into the barrel of problems our migration to Python is going to cause and came up with Localization. It figures. First out of the chute was the .po files. It turns out the actual formatting is different between the two languages. PHP uses %1$s for its substitutions, but python uses either [...]
Also tagged AMO, L10n, Mozilla, PHP, PythonI had an idea a few weeks ago. I’ve got a bunch of great photos on my computer that no one ever sees unless we meet in person. Sure, we’ve got flickr and social networking sites, but I’m talking about an old photo that someone only saw once in passing, or a favorite shot from [...]
Also tagged mail, PythonVerbatim 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 [...]
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