In a previous post I explained why and how we migrated Air Mozilla to use PostgreSQL as the default database. We did this so we can leverage PostgreSQL’s powerful full-text search feature. First, off a tangent we go… Why not … Continue reading
Before we dig into the how let’s take a look at the why. From the beginning, Air Mozilla has been a straight forward Django project that uses the ORM without requiring any database specific features. It didn’t really matter what … Continue reading
Last night we launched http://l10n.mozilla.org Like all major Open Source projects (for example, Gnome, KDE) the place to go if you want to contribute with translation work is to go to l10n.domain.name. The codename for the project is “Elmo”. code … Continue reading
I’ve been working on a Django project that is going to be squeezed in as an external application under Pootle which is our tech of choice for the Mozilla Verbatim site which is where all awesome translations happen for Mozilla … Continue reading
Surely you’re convinced too now that developing for the mobile web is important. It certainly is for us here at Mozilla. Mobile web development isn’t just about making a ultra-slim stripped down version with no images or Javascript widgets. It’s … Continue reading
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
