20 articles and counting

Teaching HTML with Hypertext Fiction

Continuing a project I worked on during Mozilla Service Week, I’ve been working on my curriculum for a workshop I will be teaching in Nov for the first time. The class is called Where the Wild Things Could Be… and will be through the 826 Seattle writing workshop. It will have about 8 students that [...]

A Sketch of PO LiveEdit

Frédéric Wenzel has a great series of L10n blog posts going and there has been a lot of discussion of L20n work at Mozilla. I ping’d Fred to check in and share an idea with him…
What if you could directly edit the copy on the staging server of a website and have it [...]

Mozilla WebDev Libraries

Nothing earth-shattering here… but I wanted to capture some ideas that the webdev team has discussed in terms of how we share our code between projects and with the community at large.
Of course 100% of our code is open source, but we want to do a better job of letting others use and contribute to [...]

New Mozilla Site is Live

I’ve posted in detail on the webdev blog about a project I’ve spent the last several weeks working on – the Mozilla Service Week website. It’ been a lot of fun with a great team and it was my first project at Mozilla that had marketing and QA. Please check it out and get involved [...]

User didn’t install your commands detection

Since MOBhat has so many steps to get setup, a Troubleshooting page would be helpful. The first common issue is people skipping the Ubiquity install step, completing the rest of the steps and then getting stuck or confused.
I’m using Ubiquity behind the scenes, so it’s optional for the user to use the command line. Since [...]

Mozilla @ 6 Months

Wow, It’s been six months since I joined Mozilla.
I’m super happy with the work, the team(s), and being closer to the Mozilla community. Working remotely hasn’t been an issue, I think for two reasons: Most of the webdev team is remote and Mozilla has been doing remote development for a looong time.
But being remote does [...]