This past week, I traveled to Revelstoke, BC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelstoke,_British_Columbia] for an Appmaker [http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/] workweek. Appmaker is an application designed to enable anyone to create mobile web apps without needing to learn about coding. By combining various widgets together and connecting…
[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)…
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…
Back in July of 2012 I created a Node.js app that made custom builds of Popcorn-js [https://chrisdecairos.ca/upgrading-popcorns-build-tool.html]. This app was called the Popcorn Dynamic Build Tool, and was a great proof of concept. Since then I haven't had a chance to hack on it and…