Deploying the MakeAPI to Heroku

For the past three weeks I've been working on a new tool for Mozilla Webmaker [http://webmaker.org]. It is called the Make API [http://github.com/mozilla/MakeAPI]. As Webmaker grows and more tools and more people create awesome content, we need a way to help them (and ourselves)…

Google Maps Update Function

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…

How to: Popcorn Maker - YouTube Upload Tool

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…

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…