I can’t believe another week has already gone by. This is that time of the year where time starts to scream along toward the holidays at a frantic pace.

What I did this week

• I’ve continued working heavily on the server-side sample component system
  • Implemented the startup script support, so that each sample component can start background services and the like as needed.
  • Planned and started implementation work on support for allocating ports each sample needs.
  • Designed tear-down process.
• Created a new “download-desc” class for use on the Firefox landing page on MDN. This page offers download links for all Firefox channels, and this class is used to correct a visual glitch. The class has not as yet been placed into production on the main server though. See this bug to track landing of this class.
• Updated the MDN administrators’ guide to include information on the new process for deploying changes to site CSS now that the old CustomCSS macro has been terminated on production.
• Cleaned up Signing Mozilla apps for Mac OS X.
• Created Using the Mozilla build VM, based heavily on Tim Taubert’s blog post and linked to it from appropriate landing pages.
• Copy-edited and revised the Web Bluetooth API page.
• Deleted a crufty page from the Window API.
• Meetings about API documentation updates and more.

Wrap up

That’s a short-looking list but a lot of time went into many of the things on that list; between coding and research for the server-side component service and experiments with the excellent build VM (I did in fact download it and use it almost immediately to build a working Nightly), I had a lot to do!

My work continues to be fun and exciting, not to mention outright fascinating. I’m looking forward to more, next week.

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