This is a weekly post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 398 Total bugs opened last week: 57 Total bugs closed last week: 61 Some specific changes of note. Payment failures and cancels handled gracefully … Continue reading
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
Offline technology is mature enough to use, but do most web developers know how? The phrase “web app” has traditionally meant something like Basecamp — an app accessed at a URL. But many traditional web apps are online, slower that … Continue reading
For the last year or so addons.mozilla.org and marketplace.firefox.com have deployed primarily by pulling the entire project out of github. Required libraries were placed in a git submodule called vendor. Vendor was then a git submodule of our project, meaning … Continue reading
This is a weekly post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 424 Total bugs opened last week: 50 Total bugs closed last week: 40 Some specific changes of note. PIN entry for payments will be … Continue reading
Every month Mozilla Webdevs get together and give lightning talks showing cool things they’ve been hacking on for work or for pleasure. The November 2012 Beer and Tell was enjoyed by all. Now that Thanksgiving is over and I’m overly … Continue reading
Around six months ago the Mozilla Playdoh project, a web application template based on Django, switched from using jingo-minify to using django-compressor for all things ‘combinable’ and ‘minifiyable’. Along with this we started using the staticfiles app i.e. django.contrib.staticfiles. Both … Continue reading
We use Graphite to see how the Firefox Marketplace and Add-ons sites are doing. But the sheer volume of traffic to Add-ons always gives some interesting graphs. A while back we were switching between different clusters for add-on version check … Continue reading
This is a cross-post of an article on Lonnen’s blog X⊕R. Reviewing a pull request to Socorro involves a series of filtering steps up front before the reviewer even considers the substance of the proposed change — does it violate … Continue reading
In 2011, it happened: people in the US started spending more time on mobile apps than on the web. The web is in danger. Apps are for real. As web developers we need to stand up, take notice, and help … Continue reading
