Webdev Bootcamp

Perhaps you are familiar with Git, Django, jQuery, Python, JS, CSS, HTML, RabbitMQ, Celery and the DOM.

Despite all that, web developing at Mozilla can still be challenging. The Webdev Bootcamp is an attempt to clarify how things are sometimes done.

See also

If you are doing Django development for Mozilla, much of our Django behavior is encapsulated in Playdoh.

Note

This documentation is in Github, so if you find any mistakes or omissions please fork it and submit a pull request.

Warning

This document is strictly a guide. If the documentation told you to jump off a cliff, would you? Likewise, if you can do something better or if you think what’s been documented is not right, challenge it and make life better for your webdev siblings.

• Accounts You’ll Need
  • List of All Accounts (and How to Get Them)
• Development Process
  • Release Cycles
  • A Bugs Life
  • QA
  • Deployment
• Developing Locally
  • Homebrew (Mac OS X)
  • Xcode (Mac OS X)
  • Homework
• Bugzilla
  • The Hacks
  • IT Requests
  • Searches
  • Making life better
• Git and Github
  • Git Resources
  • Git Practices at Mozilla
  • github.com/mozilla
  • Working on projects
  • Making life easier
  • Development Process
• Jenkins: Continuous Integration
  • Adding a new Project
  • Interacting with Jenkins on IRC
• How to Code
  • General Guidelines
  • Python
  • Django
  • Javascript
  • HTML
• JS Style Guide
  • First and Foremost
  • Variable Formatting:
  • Semi-colons
  • Conditionals and Loops
  • Functions
  • Operators
  • Quotes
  • Comments
  • Ternaries
  • General Good Practices
• CSS Style Guide
  • Terminology
  • The basics (tl;dr)
  • General guidelines
  • Formatting CSS
  • Naming conventions
  • Style sheet organization
  • Commenting
  • Preprocessors
  • Validate!
  • FAQ
• Localization (l10n)
  • SVN
  • Adding new locales (non-django)
  • Adding a new text domain (non-django)
  • Make this better
• Packaging and Dependency Management
  • Updating a Library
  • Upgrading Libraries
  • Todo
• Security
  • Involving the Security Team
  • X-Frame-Options
  • Content Security Policy
• Data storage and retrieval
  • Production Data
• Servers
  • Served Environments
  • VPN
• Error Notification in Production
• Communications
  • Mailing lists
  • IRC
  • Zimbra Email
  • Zimbra Calendar
  • Teleconferencing
• Documentation
  • Documenting Python
  • Documenting projects
  • ReadTheDocs

Indices

• Index

Todo

• port this document - http://etherpad.mozilla.org:9000/webdev-bootcamp
• Link to jsocol’s continuous deployment doc
• Link to IT Requests
• Intersphinx
• Add indexes everywhere.
• See if the anonymize directory is correct.
• Verify that the slave db is correct.
• screen shots
• explain data centers - http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2010/01/04/mozillas-new-phoenix-data-center/

Todo

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