django-mozilla-product-details, because short library names are for wimps
Achtung, Mozilla developers, a new library is heading your way! While Mozilla’s web tools have been Open Source since the beginning, it’s become somewhat of a recent tradition for us Mozilla web devs...
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Firefox Input 2.1 with Idea Submission
A few minutes ago, we released version 2.1 of Firefox Input. The release comes just in time for the releases of Firefox 4.0b8 and Fennec 4.0b3. The most important new features are: Idea Submission. We...
View ArticleStreamlining Web Development at Mozilla Without Sacrificing Quality
A few months ago we founded an experimental new “rapid web development” team at Mozilla. Its purpose was to take care of a growing number of short- to medium-term web projects at Mozilla. We nicknamed...
View ArticleScaling Django to a Global Audience with Playdoh
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...
View ArticleComing up: Webdev “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on reddit
Update, Jan 20: The Reddit AMA is going on today! Click here to join us and ask questions! As web developers at Mozilla, we take pride in making web applications that are used by millions of people...
View ArticleToday! Mozilla Webdev “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on Reddit!
As promised, today, a bunch of Mozilla Webdevs are on reddit to answer your questions! For more information, check out the announcement. Click here to get to the Mozilla Webdev “Ask Me Anything” on...
View ArticleLightning Talk: Premature Optimization
(This is a cross-post from my personal blog, fredericiana) During the work week of Mozilla’s Rapid Web Development in the Bay Area a few weeks ago, we gave a bunch of lightning talks. In my talk, I am...
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Mozilla Webdev “Beer and Tell”, March 16, 2012
So what’s a Beer and Tell? Mozilla Webdev recently started to have a monthly meeting (every third Friday of the month), where people show off their recent side projects, cool hacks, interesting pieces...
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Mozilla Webdev’s Beer and Tell: May 18, 2012
Another month, another Beer and Tell: Remember, a Beer and Tell is a monthly Mozilla Webdev event featuring a series of lightning talks while staying hydrated with a beverage of choice. We successfully...
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Let’s talk about password storage
During the course of this week, a number of high-profile websites (like LinkedIn and last.fm) have disclosed possible password leaks from their databases. The suspected leaks put huge amounts of...
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