MozCamp LatAm ended a week ago and I’m still trying to recover my sleep. It was an intense experience, much more so than any other Mozilla event I’ve ever attended before. It felt like every member of the Latin American / Hispanic community had their mind set on having a fantastic time and making the [...]
Also tagged hack day, hispano, mozcamp, presentationI’m preparing to write a few posts for the Add-ons Blog in which I’ll be covering Firefox 3.6 compatibility. Specifically, I’ll be talking about add-ons that are still popular in 3.6 and are holding some users back since they don’t have recent updates. Luckily, I’ve discovered that most of these add-ons have suitable replacements, so [...]
Also tagged accessibility, add-on, compatibility, forkToday we reached a very significant milestone. This is a screenshot of the AMO Editors dashboard, which we use to track the status of the AMO review queues. For the first time since I can remember, we are all green! What does this mean? It means that all add-ons currently waiting in the queues have [...]
Also tagged amo, editors, reviewersI’ve been meaning to experiment more with Mobile Firefox for a while, but I’ve had very little time to work on my own add-ons, which are the best source of real-world development experience for me. Since I had received a couple of requests to port Remote XUL Manager to mobile, and this is a fairly [...]
Also tagged add-on, mobile, projects, remotexulmanager, xulforgeI began this discussion in the newsgroups today. Keeping add-ons compatible in the rapid release process. It is mostly aimed at Mozilla developers, but this should interest add-on developers just the same. We’re establishing a better system to communicate breaking changes, which should make it easier and quicker to identify what needs to be added [...]
Also tagged add-on, amo, compatiblity, newsgroups, rapid releasesI visit my Google Plus Stream every now and then to see if there’s anything useful in it. Unsurprisingly, most of the time there isn’t anything. I blame primitive filtering and lack of users. But one thing that caught my eye was a post by sheppy, asking about running multiple versions of Firefox easily. While [...]
Also tagged add-on, documentation, firefox, mac osGerv started a fairly intense discussion about the new rapid release cycle, from the perspective of browser versions and their meaning. As expected, many have replied that the discussion is silly and version numbers are meaningless. This is true for most software developers, and it should be true for most web developers. In software, we [...]
Also tagged add-on, amo, jetpack, rantI returned on Sunday from Beijing, where I presented at the Mozilla Developer Conference (warning: all-Mandarin page). Twice, in fact. I made a presentation about the Add-ons World (available here), and ended up stepping in for Paul Rouget, who couldn’t make it. His presentation on HTML 5 is really great and it didn’t take much [...]
Also tagged amo, editors, jetpack, presentationOur add-on performance initiative is getting lots of attention for, lets say, various reasons. There have been objections about transparency and our testing methods, so I decided to add something valuable to the discussion and document my own testing process. I revisited my old add-on performance article and noticed that the contents of the Measuring [...]
Also tagged amo, documentation, fire.fm, remotexulmanagerSince I haven’t blogged here for quite a while, I thought it’d be good to do the mandatory WordPress version update and then post a little update on the side projects I’m currently working on: Remote XUL Manager has taken most of my spare time. It’s been exciting just because it’s a fairly new project [...]
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