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…
Last night I made something really cool using Node.js [http://nodejs.org/]. Node.js is a development platform for building applications using JavaScript. I've never built something before using it, but I decided to give it a shot. At first I had no idea what to create, but I…
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…
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…
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…
Admittedly, I've been slacking on getting these posts up. Not much I can say to justify why, other than we've been pushing really hard lately on our Butter/Popcorn Maker releases. Blog time is hard to set aside when you've got a huge amount of work to complete, but I…