In my previous post [https://chrisdecairos.ca/one-time-passwords], I wrote about the new login system we're working on for Webmaker. In short, the new system facilitates the authentication of a user by generating a one time use password and sending it to the user's email account. The user can then…
Webmaker [https://webmaker.org] users currently sign in to their accounts using Persona [https://persona.org], Mozilla's privacy respecting authentication system. It's fairly simple, and has worked really well since our rewrite this past march [https://chrisdecairos.ca/webmaker-sso]. You can read the details of the implementation in the blog…
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…
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…