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…
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…
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…
It's been a pretty good week so far for me! On Monday, I traveled to Mozilla [http://www.mozilla.org/]'s new Toronto offices to get started on a two day "hackfest". The purpose of this event was to help CBC create an HTML5 audio puzzle game to go with…