With the launch of our Mozillians.org community phonebook, I wanted to talk about it’s unusual data access model. Typical Web Apps Most web applications use a single shared authentication account to access data. Users authenticate to the site as themselves, … Continue reading
Perhaps you’ve encountered a new Mozilla Webdev beast… the project Steward. What is a Steward? What can I expect from them? Web development work is done in three different places: In-house External (contractor or agency) Community The role of a … Continue reading
In the 0.9.2 release of MDN, we are going to fix some integration issues between Django, Deki, and phpBB using Apache mod_rewrite. A horrible thought occurred to me… What if one of our RewriteRule directives was written in a way … Continue reading
As JavaScript codebases become larger and more complex, we start to miss the niceties we take for granted in general purpose programming languages. It would be really great to have a JavaScript module system. The CommonJS community has created a … Continue reading
Paul Osman, Dan Mills, and I recently attended the Federated Social Web Summit and a commonly mentioned problem was discovery in a de-centralized environment. How do you get website A to talk to website B without a centralized service to … Continue reading
As noted on our security blog, we’ve just pushed out a major update to the plugin check page and service. The two core ideas are: Groundwork for a plugin directory Cross browser plugin checking The Backend Les Orchard has created … Continue reading
Following up on the Flash Detection on the What’s New page, we are developing an upgrade to the Plugin Finder Service (PFS2). We could use your help! Please hit our testing server’s Plugin Check. We will be able to capture … Continue reading
Congratulations to the Mozilla Community for an amazing and ongoing localization effort! We’ve shipped our first 4 locales and have several more in the works. A lot of hard work was done by our de, es, fr, and it teams … Continue reading
In an effort to bootstrap Mozilla Service Week, we’ve put out our first call for volunteering on Idealist.org. Want to exercise your CSS skills? We need help fixing IE 6 layout issues. We mark IE6 bugs as critical when they … Continue reading
We are excited to announce the release of Mozilla Service Week. It is a new website for our community that aims to: Promote technology related volunteering between Mozillians and their local communities Promote idealist.org and other existing websites that make … Continue reading
