HookPress: Webhooks for WordPress
I recently have spent a little time putting together a new WordPress plugin called HookPress. HookPress lets you add webhooks to WordPress, letting you easily develop push notifications or extend...
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Let’s talk about how cool our localizers are
I uploaded Ubiquity to BabelZilla, an online community and tool for localizing Mozilla-style strings, just a couple days ago and we already have French and Polish complete.1 WOW! Granted, these are...
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Performance vs Responsiveness —or— How I Made the Parser Twice As Fast in One...
Since we launched Ubiquity 0.5, the issue of Parser 2 performance has been brought up over and over within the community. By virtue of having a more flexible and localizable design, Parser 2 was...
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Exploring Command Chaining in Ubiquity: Part 1
Since the dawn of time people have been asking about command chaining in Ubiquity. If you have a translate command and an email command, it would be great to be able to, for example, translate hello to...
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The Ubiquity Persistence Project: exploring a persistent Ubiquity in the toolbar
It’s often hard to remember Ubiquity’s presence and keystroke without a visual reminder—even I often forget that I could use Ubiquity and end up going to a search engine or using the search bar for...
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Exploring Command Chaining in Ubiquity: Part 2
Introduction I recently have begun giving serious thought to what command chaining might look like in Ubiquity and the various considerations which must be made to make it happen. The “command...
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The Aliens Aliases Have Landed
This week I implemented a new way to customize and extend Ubiquity commands: CmdUtils.CreateAlias. The use case for and importance of CreateAlias CreateAlias lets you easily create a special-case...
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Mozilla By The Numbers
About six months ago I started working for Mozilla Labs full-time, focusing on Ubiquity, the multilingual natural language interface for the browser. This week marked my last week on contract as I go...
View ArticleExtending WordPress talk at the Boston WordPress Meetup
Yesterday I gave a talk at the Boston WordPress Meetup. The Boston WordPress Meetup meets monthly at the Microsoft Cambridge Research Center which is a fantastic venue right on the Charles river. Last...
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Mashing up the browser in Maine
Last week I was invited to give a talk at the TechMaine annual conference in Portland, Maine. Being a longer time slot than I previously have used to talk about Ubiquity, I decided to dedicate a good...
View ArticleDisgusting Word-formatted HTML and how to fix it
In working on a new website for the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, I recently inherited a collection of HTML files with all of our books’ abstracts. To my dismay (but not surprise) the markup in...
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After the Deadline for Firefox
After the Deadline is a powerful and intelligent proofreading tool which checks for spelling errors, misused words, some grammatical gaffes, and even some stylistic issues. For the past month, I’ve...
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Jetpack Ambassadors in MV
A couple weeks ago I went out to Mozilla HQ in Mountain View for a Jetpack Ambassador meetup. Jetpack is a project at Mozilla labs intended to make writing Firefox add-ons easier, and shares some...
View ArticleJetpacking in Boston
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk at the Boston Javascript meetup introducing Jetpack and filling people in in the latest developments in the project, including the Reboot. Between 20 to 30 people came...
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Spring is for Speaking: JSConf, WordCamp SF, IACL
I recently confirmed three different very exciting speaking gigs which I’ll be doing this spring: JSConf.us: I’ll be putting my Mozilla Jetpack Ambassador hat on to represent Mozilla Labs’ Jetpack...
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Better Linguist List RSS Feeds
Everyone I know in linguistics uses the LINGUIST List website to a greater or lesser degree. Linguist List began as a mailing list in the 90’s, with book, job, and dissertation announcements,...
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Every website has a purpose
Every website has a purpose. Maybe you want people to buy a product, donate to your cause, download your app, or subscribe to your mailing list. How can you confidently modify your site to make it more...
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween from the Firefox Panorama team! We carved some pumpkins a couple days ago in my department. I carved the Panorama logo above, but also one of the Stata Center. More Jack-O-Lantern...
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Checking mochitest test coverage
One of the last bugs for Firefox Panorama was bug 625818: “Check Panorama mochitest test suite coverage”. Our automated tests ensure that we do not regress on existing functionality, but it’s only as...
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Nountype Quirks: Day 3: Geo Day
.scorebar { background-color:red; display:inline-block; height:0.5em; vertical-align:middle; } .scoretable td { font-size: 0.7em; } It’s time for one more installment of Nountype Quirks, where I...
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