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Since this is Mozilla, it’s easy for us to focus on the client-side half of web development: we are a browser company, after all. But most of us on the web dev team spend most of our time working on … Continue reading
Since this is Mozilla, it’s easy for us to focus on the client-side half of web development: we are a browser company, after all. But most of us on the web dev team spend most of our time working on … Continue reading
We’ve seen a huge spike in traffic to getpersonas.com due to our prompted update for Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 users to upgrade to 3.6. Some users may have seen a degradation in site speed and reliability during the past 12 … Continue reading
We’ve released another Python library: Bleach, for sanitizing HTML and automatically linking URLs in text, that we’re using on addons.mozilla.org and support.mozilla.com. It’s based on html5lib, which we chose because of its foundation in web standards and its active development … Continue reading
Yesterday, the Mozilla webdev team released a few reusable libraries that are helping us scale out the new Django-based version of addons.mozilla.org. Cache Machine hooks into the Django ORM to provide automatic object caching and invalidation for database queries. We … Continue reading
After a much-too-long delay, the GetFirebug.com web site redesign is now live. Here’s a few production notes and other thoughts on how the revamped web site for one of the top web development tools came into being. Continue reading
So you’ve built your web application, and people are putting data in it, but how do they get that data back out? Often, they find data by searching. MySQL provides a searchable full-text index, but it has several limitations: FULLTEXT … Continue reading
I love speed. I’m a speed fanatic. Fast cars, planes, skydiving, anything involving triple digit MPH. But the thing that I like fast the most is websites. Millisecond response times, content delivery networks, caching, sprites, you name it. In case … Continue reading
If getpersonas.com seems a little bit snappier today, there’s a reason. Last night we released a new version of the website that utilizes a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that makes browsing getpersonas.com even faster. What’s a CDN, you ask? To … Continue reading
hacks.mozilla.org has two great tutorials up about CSS gradients available in Firefox 3.6: css gradients in Firefox 3.6 building beautiful buttons with css gradients Really awesome stuff, looking forward to seeing more and more designs that are normally done with … Continue reading
Yesterday Wil Clouser wrote up a blog post detailing infrastructure changes for addons.mozilla.org in 2010. Notable changes are: Migrating from CakePHP to Django Moving from SVN to Git Continuous integration Faster deployment Processing data offline Improved documentation Take a look, … Continue reading