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…
On Friday of last week I found myself hacking on a peculiar bug [https://webmademovies.lighthouseapp.com/projects/63272/tickets/1405-position-function-can-throw-in-ie9-if-video-passed-in-has-never-had-a-parent-node] that I stumbled upon in Popcorn.js. The particulars of that bug aren't very important, the only important thing to mention right now is that it was a bug…
Another year has come and gone, seemingly in the blink of an eye. For me, it's been one to remember. 2012 was a year of great learning for me. My position at CDOT [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page] has given me more than just steady…
Last week I wrote about my addition of a PDF.js plugin to Popcorn Maker [https://chrisdecairos.ca/pdf-js-and-popcorn-maker.html]. I took some time today to hack on it some more and I figured it was worthwhile to outline what I have accomplished thus far. I had pretty much gotten…
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…