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
Over the past few weeks, I’ve become a bit of an unsubscribe connoisseur. Niche, I know. Rather than merely archiving unwanted emails as I’m wont to do, I made it my mission to permanently reduce the clutter in my inbox. … Continue reading
Over the past couple weeks my teammates at Mozilla have been blogging about our goal to merge our major websites, currently spread across several domains, into the one and only site mozilla.org. Their posts provide a lot of good history … 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
Julie Deroche seems to do it year after year. I’m not sure what her secret is, but we get the most amazing interns in the world. Matt, Tanay and Adrian worked on important projects for Mozilla this summer and made … Continue reading
Web Development at Mozilla started with two people and has become a worldwide team of 40 of the best web developers in the world. Growing so rapidly can present a number of challenges for leadership, engineers and the rest of … Continue reading
Yesterday, we pushed out Socorro 2.1, which changes the way we calculate crashes/ADU. We’ve now started including content and plugin crashes in these crash counts. This means that when you look at graphs on crash-stats.mozilla.com today, you’ll see an uptick … Continue reading
While we were at Open Source Bridge we had a great time hanging out and learning with other hackers from around the open source world. Rainer Cvillink, Video Producer at Mozilla, filmed a video where we talked about our experience … Continue reading
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
We decided to sponsor Read the Docs in a roundabout fashion. Documentation is important. It helps us understand what it is we’re building, and since everything we do is open source it helps others understand how to use our tools … Continue reading
