{"id":3965,"date":"2014-11-13T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2014-11-13T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:50:08","slug":"webdev-extravaganza-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2014\/11\/13\/webdev-extravaganza-november-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Webdev Extravaganza – November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once a month, web developers from across Mozilla get together to work on a sequel to The Pragmatic Programmer<\/i> titled The Unhinged Technical Architect<\/i>. While we argue over the use of oxford commas, we find time to talk about the work that we’ve shipped, share the libraries we’re working on, meet new folks, and talk about whatever else is on our minds. It’s the Webdev Extravaganza! The meeting is open to the public; you should stop by!<\/p>\n

You can check out the wiki page<\/a> that we use to organize the meeting, view a recording of the meeting<\/a> in Air Mozilla, or attempt to decipher the aimless scrawls that are the meeting notes<\/a>. Or just read on for a summary!<\/p>\n

Shipping Celebration<\/h2>\n

The shipping celebration is for anything we finished and deployed in the past month, whether it be a brand new site, an upgrade to an existing one, or even a release of a library.<\/p>\n

New Mozilla.org Pages and The Open Standard<\/h3>\n

craigcook<\/a> stopped by to share a bunch of new things that launched from the Web Productions team, including a new mozilla.org homepage<\/a> and a new contribute page<\/a>. He also mentioned The Open Standard<\/a>, which was launched with support from the Web Productions team.<\/p>\n

Sites using contribute.json<\/h3>\n

We heard from peterbe<\/a> about a new listing of sites<\/a> with a contribute.json<\/a> file. The listing pulls info hourly from the contribute.json files for each site in the list. Pull requests are welcome to add more Mozilla sites to the list.<\/p>\n

Humble Mozilla Bundle and Voxatron Snippet<\/h3>\n

Yours truly<\/a> mentioned the Humble Mozilla Bundle<\/a>, a promotion with Humble Bundle<\/a> where we offered several popular games for purchase that can run within a web browser.<\/p>\n

To promote the bundle, jgruen<\/a> and other Mozillians worked with Joseph White<\/a> to make a minimal port of the Voxatron<\/a> for use in an about:home snippet<\/a>. All told, the snippet was about 200kb large and still managed to cram in a full 3d voxel engine that Firefox users were able to play with on their home page.<\/p>\n

Open-source Citizenship<\/h2>\n

Here we talk about libraries we’re maintaining and what, if anything, we need help with for them. Except this week there was nothing shared. Never mind!<\/p>\n

New Hires \/ Interns \/ Volunteers \/ Contributors<\/h2>\n

Here we introduce any newcomers to the Webdev group, including new employees, interns, volunteers, or any other form of contributor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>\nIRC Nick<\/th>\nRole<\/th>\nProject<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Kristj\u00e1n Oddsson<\/a><\/td>\nkoddsson<\/td>\nVolunteer<\/td>\ncareers.mozilla.org<\/a> and snippets.mozilla.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Roundtable<\/h2>\n

The Roundtable is the home for discussions that don’t fit anywhere else.<\/p>\n

configobj<\/h3>\n

ErikRose<\/a> wanted to use configobj<\/a> and asked for opinions on the library. peterbe gave a positive recommendation based on his experience using it in configman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tabzilla Update Bar<\/h3>\n

mythmon<\/a> wanted to let people know about a new feature in Tabzilla<\/a>. You can now trigger a feature called the Update Bar<\/a>, which notifies users on old versions of Firefox that they should update their browser. pmac<\/a> also called out the Translation Bar<\/a>, which offers localized versions of the current page to users viewing your site in a language that doesn’t match their preferred locale.<\/p>\n

Workweek at Bernie’s<\/h3>\n

I also gave a reminder about the Webdev meetup happening at the Portland Coincidental Workweek<\/a>, an event now known as the Workweek at Bernie’s<\/a>. Follow that link for more details, and if you’re going to be at the workweek and want to attend, contact me to RSVP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After skimming the back cover of The Pragmatic Programmer<\/i>, we came up with an outline describing how our book can teach you how to:<\/p>\n