A majority of my work on Webmaker [https://webmaker.org] has been dedicated to something we call the Make API [https://github.com/mozilla/MakeAPI]. It is a service for storing meta data about things people create online and making that meta data publicly searchable. Ever since we first stood…
[https://chrisdecairos.ca/content/images/2013/07/webmaker.png] I've spent the better part of my last two weeks working on implementing a new form of authentication for the Make API. This post is going to detail what has changed, how it works, and how you can set up your…
For the past three weeks I've been working on a new tool for Mozilla Webmaker [http://webmaker.org]. It is called the Make API [http://github.com/mozilla/MakeAPI]. As Webmaker grows and more tools and more people create awesome content, we need a way to help them (and ourselves)…
When you use Popcorn Maker [popcorn.webmaker.org/], you get a suite of events that let you do some really fun things with video and audio on the web. We've got a plugin that lets you type in some text and place it wherever you desire. There's a plugin that…
Today I landed a patch I had been working on for roughly 3 months. Now, it's not like I worked on it every day, but it has taken a lot of work to get it done, and I think it really makes the experience of adding a Google Map to…
Over the past 2 months, the Popcorn Maker [http://mozillapopcorn.org] team has been working really hard to develop new and exciting features for the app. Recently part of this work has involved trying out an experimental feature from YouTube [https://developers.google.com/youtube/youtube_upload_widget] that lets…