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getpersonas.com 2.0 is live!

Ryan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:17:22 +0000

For the past few months I’ve been working on a redesign with the Personas team on getpersonas.com. Last night we launched it and it’s looking awesome!

Here’s a screencast of some of the new features:

For more info, check out the Mozilla Labs blog post about it or visit the site!

Favicons in Firefox (Mac) Bookmark Toolbar

Ryan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:35:39 +0000

Sarah asked me yesterday to help her with editing Firefox’s userChrome.css to show favicons in the Bookmarks Toolbar. Vlad had written up a post about it, but many commenters had tweaks and fixes.

So I’ve put all the code I used together onto GitHub here: http://gist.github.com/186269. Add that to your ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/profiles/*.default/chrome/userChrome.css (or create it if it’s not there). And you should be ‘good to go’!

Cesium 0.1 Released! (YSlow Automator)

Ryan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:18:11 +0000

For a while now I’ve had the idea of automating YSlow results and graphing them since I’m lazy and don’t want to check a website every day or two and save the results. Luckily, Mozilla has an internship program over the summer and I was lucky enough to get none other than the awesome Mark Hahnenberg as my intern!

For the past month Mark has been working tirelessly on Cesium, a YSlow automator web app. It’s a hybrid web app that also has a daemon that regularly checks your website with YSlow and records the results. You can add and edit sites and pages and see the results over time.

We have a lot of neat ideas for it and are looking for contributors, testers and ideas. So, read the wiki, join us in IRC in #cesium on irc.mozilla.org or file a bug!

Mozilla Community Store!

Ryan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:44:39 +0000

After the wild success of the Firefox 3 T-Shirt design contest, we decided there should be a way for people to design and share their own t-shirts all the time. So we’ve just launched the Mozilla Community Store, where anyone can upload their designs and have them printed by Zazzle!

This definitely wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work of Alex, Stephen, Aravind, Tara, Melissa and John. Big thanks to all of them!

Want some real-world web development experience?

Ryan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:37:22 +0000

So in some of my previous posts about becoming/being a web developer, I say you should write code, lots of code. I also think the more varied real-world experience you get, the better developer you’d be.

So how can you get more real-world experience when you are a student or have a full-time job? Easy, you can write code for Mozilla!

Want some Python, Javascript and MySQL exeperience? Help us with our Graph Server. Dying to show off your killer PHP skills? Help us with AMO. Want to work on Drupal? Work on spreadfirefox.com. Want to work on some crazy futuristic ideas? Check out Mozilla Labs.

All of our code is open source and available through svn.mozilla.org or hg.mozilla.org. You don’t even need an account to checkout the code!

The basic workflow would go something like this:

Take a bug
Submit patch
Ask someone to review the patch
Once reviewed, submit the patch
Pad your resume

Want more info? Check out the wiki and mozilla.org/contribute.

Photo from onthetower.