As part of the Zentact project I’ve been working on, we were asked to integrate with various webmail clients. This makes it easy to manage your contacts while sending email.
Doing this was a bit of a pain. Since all code is minified, and they all use Javascript events differently, there was a good bit of […]
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Hey kids! Guess who’s presenting at Acts as Conference, 2009! These guys! Also, some guy with a big nose.
I’m giving a talk on OAuth, the greatest way to protect your APIs while keeping your users secure. Simple, easy, fun, and it might even get you laid. The amazing, spectacular, splendiforous OAuth! Yea. It’s gonna be […]
It’s official, Zentact is live. This is the product that Cloudspace has been building for the past several months for John Sampson, Eric Marcoullier, and Jared Brandt (who also makes some damn fine wine).
The skinny of Zentact is that it’s an address book with a Firefox extension that lets you know when someone in your […]
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Did you know that if you’ve got Firebug for Firefox installed, you can use it for debugging your own code? By calling
console.log("Here's a message!");
Firebug will print the message to it’s internal message log. Neat!
Now, that’s all good. But let’s say you’re on a project that’s not using a Javascript preprocessor to minify and strip debugging […]
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Here’s a tip for developing Firefox Extensions in FF3.
You might have heard of the Extension Developer’s Extension (EDE). EDE is an extension that provides useful settings and features for people who are writing their own extensions. For example, EDE makes it easy to activate Javascript debug settings, interactively debug Javascript, and a few other goodies.
My […]
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After lots of code, tests, and fun, I’ve produced a Firefox extension to add a useful, new feature to Twitter, as opposed to writing Twitter extensions as a joke
Simply put, the extension provides autocomplete for Twitter usernames from your own list of friends while you’re using the web interface at twitter.com. It’s totally […]
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OK, here’s the deal, as quick as I can put it, but with enough words that Google will correctly index this post and make this information easier to find for the next person who needs it.
Let’s say you’re developing a Firefox extension, and you need to look at the HTML of the page. You know […]
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Detecting page loads is a useful ability. It’s easy enough to throw in a
gBrowser.addEventListener(”load”, function_name, true);
But, it causes extra events to get generated. There’s load events occurring in the browser that aren’t page loads. The trick to detecting real page loads (but not Back/Forward navigation when the page is still in memory — only page […]
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