JS-Builder

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…

Moar PDF.js and Popcorn Maker

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…

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…

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…