Erik Rose
Ever wonder just how much you gain by having Apache serve your static files? I had a particularly hairy set of RewriteRules to support this in my project and a fairly simple Python routine as an alternative, so I ran … Continue reading
Alexis Metaireau
We are building a marketplace expected to reach millions of users. All of them should be able to rely on the Marketplace for browsing and installing apps from Firefox OS and Android phones. Part of Mozilla’s job is to make … Continue reading
Fred Wenzel
Another month, another Beer and Tell: Remember, a Beer and Tell is a monthly Mozilla Webdev event featuring a series of lightning talks while staying hydrated with a beverage of choice. We successfully recorded this installment! If you just want … Continue reading
Matthew Riley MacPherson
In case you missed last month’s blog post, a Beer and Tell is a monthly Mozilla Webdev gettogether involving cool hacks and malted beverages. We try to structure it like a series of lightning talks and — because all work … Continue reading
Matthew Riley MacPherson
Mozilla is a large, highly visible, open source organization, with loads of contributors who commit code to, document, and localize our products. A big part of our success is our community, and our web apps are a big part of … Continue reading
Laura Thomson
Next week, a number of Mozilla webdevs will be making a pilgrimage to PyCodeConf, put on by the nice people at github, in Miami. I’ll be speaking on the topic of Processing Firefox Crash Reports with Python. Mozilla is also … Continue reading
Peter Bengtsson
So I’ve got a piece of MongoKit code that simply wraps a pymongo query and it looks like this times = defaultdict(list) for pq in (db.PlayedQuestion.collection .find({'play.$id': {'$in': play_ids}})): if pq['time'] is not None: if pq['right']: times['right'].append(pq['time']) elif pq['answer']: times['wrong'].append(pq['time']) What I noticed was … Continue reading
Fred Wenzel
At Open Source Bridge last month, I gave a talk about Mozilla’s Playdoh project, which tweaks the Django web application framework to reach our global audience at Mozilla. Here’s a second run of that presentation, recorded at the Mozilla offices … Continue reading
Erik Rose
I have a bit of a dot dependency. As someone who spends a lot of time running tests on his Python code, my mind now self-administers a minute dopamine hit with every dot emitted by my test runner. But nose’s standard test runner has some shortcomings. I’ve written a plugin called nose-progressive that addresses them to make debugging speedier. Continue reading
Paul Craciunoiu
Note: this is a repost from my blog. You can find the original post here. Update: Thanks to Avazu for a clean suggestion and Fred for pointing out I should have indicated a good way to get around this. Summary … Continue reading