PDF.js & Popcorn Maker

In the weeks after MozFest [http://mozillafestival.org/blog/], the Popcorn team has been focusing on fixing up as many crash bugs ( crash = app breaking script errors ) as we can. In the down time between bugs we were given some free time to work on experimental features. One feature that…

A brief update

Things have been pretty exciting at CDOT over the past several months. I have fell far behind in keeping my blog up to date. I'm going to take some time today to summarize the major events that have come to pass since my last post. I'll talk about my trip…

Popcorn.js v1.3

We've just released Popcorn.js 1.3 [https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-js/zipball/v1.3]! [http://popcornjs.org]It's been over 4 months since 1.2 and we've resolved many tickets over that time period. One of the reasons it's taken so long is that much of the team and…

Popcorn and Butter Testing Update - 2

Today was a good day. I've managed to get my scripts to easily handle job requests for Butter [https://github.com/mozilla/butter] and Popcorn [https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-js]! This means that one try command script [https://github.com/cadecairos/popbot-files/blob/tryCommand/on_cmd_try.js] can be…

Testing Update

Last week I detailed my plans for setting automated unit testing in butter. Here's a short update on my work. I was able to get bot.io to initiate test runs on my test swarm installation( Popcorn.js unit tests ). It took some experimentation to get working, and there's still…

Time to Automate Butter Unit Testing

For the past 5 weeks, the Popcorn team has been churning out hundreds upon hundreds of tickets in preparation for last weekends' Popcorn Story Camp [http://maker.mozillapopcorn.org/storycamp/]. While ultimately satisfying that we achieved our goal, every team member was absolutely drained of all energy by the end…