Project News Next week’s Bay Area Firefox Add-ons meet-up will be at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on Tuesday, February 21 at 6PM. This month’s meetup features the SDK and Builder, including a talk by yours truly, a raffle for an Android Tablet and much, much more! If you’re in the area on Tuesday Feb 21… Continue reading
I’m excited to be working with Amy to resurrect the bay Area Add-ons meetup next Tuesday night. The theme for this month’s meetup will be the Add-on SDK and Builder, so I will be giving brief overviews of how these tools work and the kinds of things you can do with them. We’d also like… Continue reading
If you’re in the Bay Area, we invite you to join us at our San Francisco office on Tuesday, February 21, for an evening of food, drinks and good company! Come and see how easy it is to create add-ons for Firefox with Add-on Builder and the Add-on SDK. If you’re a Web developer and… Continue reading
Project News We released two point releases, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 to address issues related to deploying SDk 1.4 on the Add-on Builder site. Jorge pointed out an important compatibility issue with SDK 1.3 and the upcoming Firefox 11 release in his compatibility post. We will be re-packing add-ons built with 1.3 and lower prior to… Continue reading
Tomorrow I’m heading to Europe for a week or so; amongst other things I am very very excited to be attending FOSDEM for the first time after hearing about it for years! I’ll be speaking and generally helping out in the Mozilla project’s dev room. If you are at all interested in add-on development, there… Continue reading
Project News Happy New Year! Matteo Ferretti recently landed initial mobile support for the page-mod module in pull request 301 Watch this space for additional posts on creating mobile addons with the SDK! Dietrich Ayala blogged about the Firefox Features effort, and the current plans for pushing this SDK-related project forward in 2012. We’re working… Continue reading
In just over a week the Jetpack project will be hosting an SDK hack day in Mountain View. I’ve decided to keep the event’s format as flexible as possible so as to make sure we can accommodate various levels of experience: If you’re a web developer curious about branching out and hacking the browser, we… Continue reading
Project News Slides from my FSOSS presentation are online. Alexandre Poirot blogged about proposed localization features for the SDK, based on JSON and Gnu gettext conventions. The SDK hack Day in Mountain View on November 19th is coming up fast! Register here. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 210 Bugs created this week: 20 Bugs fixed… Continue reading
I presented a talk at FSOSS in Toronto this weekend on the Add-on SDK. I blogged about the conference over on my personal blog, but I just wanted to post here as well and point out that the slides for my talk are online: http://talks.canuckistani.ca/fsoss/ For maximum enjoyment you should: make sure you are running… Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.2.1 released Wednesday Oct. 19 to address a critical issue. I’m giving an SDK talk this Saturday at Seneca College’s annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium in Toronto. Interesting comparison of browser extension tech from the author of MediaPlus Meeting Brief SDK: Shipped 1.2.1 Wednesday plans to land new Loader soon.… Continue reading
