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authorization and contacts
I’ve gotten a bit further with my OAuth addon, and now have a couple of the Contacts importers working with it in Firefox and Thunderbird. For more information about the OAuth addon, see some of my...
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now I can find that freaking attachment!
Update: I’ve made the attachments viewer available on AMO Here’s a small addon for Thunderbird that provides an attachment search. It shows you the actual attachment (if it’s an image), and searches...
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addon roundup
I thought I’d make some xpi’s available for some of the addons I’ve been working on, and while they are all available in either bitbucket or hg.mozilla.org, sometimes a xpi is just easier. They will...
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Over the past couple months I’ve been distracted by a little project called Raindrop and have neglected the thunderbird addons a bit, but this week I’ve updated sync. You can pull the latest from my...
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can I stumble any faster?
I’m thinking about web performance again… Since taking a look at a little project, which is using the async event driven Tornado server, I thought I’d re-investigation performance data around python...
View Articledatabase migrations for SQLAlchemy
It was a dark and stormy day, so I skipped stepping outside and worked a while. There’s Vancouver for you. At Mozilla Messaging we’ve been using Pylons and SQLAlchemy on a couple projects. One of the...
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Huffington Post: an example of social privacy problems
A few weeks ago I ran across an article (via some social site) on Huffington Post. I read articles there from time to time, and I thought, why not follow them on Twitter? I found the Twitter icon,...
View ArticleWhat I would change in OAuth
Now that I had my rant about the misuse of OAuth, I thought I’d mention a couple things that I think should be fixed in OAuth. I’m kind of skipping the “why” here, just to keep things short. And no,...
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user management for oauth in firefox
Last week I worked on a little experiment around providing better user management over their OAuth permissions. There are a couple issues that I wanted to tackle, the first is how to better educate...
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using json-schema for exploring api servers
A while ago Google introduced an API Explorer for many of their APIs. In Mozilla Messaging we had done a similar api browser for Raindrop that James Burke created, which we ended up using in the early...
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