{"id":2483,"date":"2012-03-09T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2012-03-09T08:21:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:21:16","slug":"better-know-a-webdev-luke-crouch-aka-groovecoder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2012\/03\/09\/better-know-a-webdev-luke-crouch-aka-groovecoder\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Know a WebDev: Luke Crouch (aka groovecoder)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta write a blog post on Friday!<\/p>\n

Hitting memes at the height of their popularity is easy. Dredging up memories weeks or months later is more fun.<\/p>\n

Now, on to today’s Better Know a WebDev<\/a>! In this corner, the Terror of Tulsa, the Oracle of Oklahoma, Luuuuuke Croooouch<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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What do you do at Mozilla?<\/h3>\n

I learn a ton from other Mozillians while I work on the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)<\/a> site. MDN hosts awesome web documentation<\/a> and we’re expanding to host demos<\/a>, events<\/a>, profiles, and more. We’re migrating the wiki from MindTouch to our own Django-powered Kuma<\/a> code – a clone of the Kitsune<\/a> code that powers Support<\/a>. Along the way we’re still adding features like BrowserID and fixing as many bugs as we can. I also organize our sprints<\/a> and do a little product management until we hire an official MDN product manager<\/a>. BTW, we’re hiring! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Any fun side projects you’re working on?<\/h3>\n

Most of my side projects are caught up in http:\/\/tulsawebdevs.org<\/a>, of which I’m the Chief Sanitation Officer. Specifically, I’m scraping some local public data<\/a> and preparing for http:\/\/tulsahackathon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also brew my own beer as often as I can. Once a month I retreat to a Benedictine Abbey here in Oklahoma to brew beer with them.<\/p>\n

How did you get started in web development or programming?<\/h3>\n

I picked up an HTML book around ’93, kicked around in Flash while, took the Pascal, C, and Java classes in high school and took a webmaster vocational tech class. But I really decided to stick with web development when I hacked out my first database-powered HTML page one night in college – a table with 2 rows of dynamically-generated content using SQL Server and ASP on IIS!<\/p>\n

How did you get involved with Mozilla?<\/h3>\n

I’ve used Firefox since I switched from Netscape Navigator. But I had only ever skirted around the contribution path (a behavior I’m also trying to address with our WebDev Stewards stuff).<\/p>\n

As for working here, that’s a little complicated and involved a lot of luck! I built ajaxMyTop<\/a> while doing “enterprise” development. When I got an unsolicited patch for it<\/a>, I was hooked forever on the open-source model. So when I saw an online job posting for SourceForge.net, I jumped on it, got in<\/a>, and learned a ton about open-source and web development. Four years later I saw an online job posting at Mozilla and I jumped again<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What’s a funny fail story or mistake you can share?<\/h3>\n

Don’t push big code changes while you’re at a conference!<\/p>\n

We pushed changes to the SourceForge.net File Release System and corresponding download redirector while at OSCON ’09<\/a>. It caused recursive redirects which broke all SourceForge.net downloads for over an hour! (Millions of downloads) The conference WiFi broke so a dozen of us had to share a single 2G cell phone ‘net connection to fix it.<\/p>\n

What’s something you’re particularly proud of?<\/h3>\n

I was honored to give the keynote talk at PHP Conference Brasil<\/a> in 2008, where I showed how SourceForge.net used PHP. I’m proud of all the Tulsa Web Devs<\/a> – doing stuff every bit as cool as the web scenes in other towns. I’m proud of my wife for putting up with all my quirks and my nearly mono-maniacal focus on web development.<\/p>\n

What’s coming up that you’re excited about?<\/h3>\n

All of Mozilla’s new stuff – Boot to Gecko<\/a>, Apps<\/a>, and Persona<\/a> are extremely important projects for the internet. I’m trying to patch dochub<\/a> so it could serve as MDN’s Open Web App, and I think we could try some cool things like MDN Open Web Badges<\/a>. I also like the idea of using a federated wiki protocol<\/a> for web documentation, and hosting web developer html5 ebooks on MDN.<\/p>\n

What question do you wish you’d been asked?<\/h3>\n

What’s with the name ‘groovecoder’? It actually started as ‘groovepapa’ – a silly gaming handle I used for Marathon<\/a> LAN parties because I always danced to techno music in my chair while playing. As I coded more, it turned into ‘groovecoder’ but it was still just a silly name. After reading The Productive Programmer<\/a>, I find it describes me well – I want to be “in the groove” when I code.<\/p>\n

If you operated a food truck, what would be your specialty?<\/h3>\n

My truck would be “Stews and Brews” – it would serve a bowl of soup with a pint of beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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