Mozilla Webdev

Welcome to another thrilling installment of your favorite, and only, recurring series on this blog: Better Know a WebDev!

This is a special week, as we’re featuring someone who just moved from web development into a product role with our Add-ons team. Give a big welcome and congratulations to Greg Koberger!

Welcome back to the third epic installment of Better Know a WebDev!

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 Reddit.

Welcome back to our Better Know a WebDev series! This week, we’re looking at, well, me!

There are lots of ways to measure the performance of a site. On addons.mozilla.org we measure a few of them: how long it takes to render pages, the cache performance and responsiveness for content delivery networks globally. But with the advent of the navigation timing API in Firefox 7 we’ve been able to add the most important measurement of all – the actual performance in the browser.

Our group has grown a lot over the past few years, as we’ve taken on new projects and done a whole lot of amazing new things. Naturally, as we’ve grown we’ve become a group of more diverse backgrounds, skills and interests—everything from awesome JavaScript developers to our growing Hadoop expertise.

Update, Jan 20: The Reddit AMA is going on today! Click here to join us and ask questions!

For most people who work with computers for a living, holidays are a time for family… and providing endless tech support. As I was huddled over a half working computer, someone asked what an add-on was. I spend most of my time working with and on add-ons — so the concept seems obvious to me. As I found out this past Christmas, it’s not to everyone. My otherwise-fairly-computer-literate family had a hard time understanding where the browser ended and websites such as Facebook or Google started — so explaining the concept of add-ons was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be.

I’ve been working on a Django project that is going to be squeezed in as an external application under Pootle which is our tech of choice for the Mozilla Verbatim site which is where all awesome translations happen for Mozilla web projects. (translations for Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. is done by another project which I’ll blog about more in the next couple of weeks).