Configuring and running services for Webmaker is a real pain in the ass. (Webmaker services = Webmaker API, Webmaker ID, and Webmaker LoginAPI) There's database and caching services to install and configure, npm dependencies to install, native NodeJS bindings to compile (sorry, Windows), and database scripts/migrations to run. This makes…
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…
A majority of my work on Webmaker [https://webmaker.org] has been dedicated to something we call the Make API [https://github.com/mozilla/MakeAPI]. It is a service for storing meta data about things people create online and making that meta data publicly searchable. Ever since we first stood…
[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…