Paul Swartz's PCF Devblog

I spent Wednesday and Thursday trying to track down and fix #9581, where the loading spinner wasn’t working after the transition to XULRunner 1.9. Something changed about the permissions system, so the parent frame couldn’t access a function in the child frame. The work around for this was to give the two functions which turn on/off the spinner permissions to access the child frame.

Friday was spent tracking down failures in the thumbnail test cases. It turns out it was a silly bug in the test cases themselves; they were referring to an outdated URL on http://www.getdemocracy.com/.

This week I’ve been working on finishing up a new first time page which hopefully I’ll have rolled out by the call in the morning. I also started working on an API for the Guide. I’m really excited about this particular feature; several people have asked for it and I it’ll be important for when we want more integration between Miro and the Guide.

In reverse order:
* Fixed a bug in the guide where the overall popularity rank was incorrectly calculated.
* changed the template used for the category/tag/language pages for popular/top-rated channels.
* released a new version of I Heart Miro which should prevent Amazon from thinking we’re buying Google ads and also fixed some cases where URLs incorrectly had our affiliate tag applied to them
* links between the recommendations page and the ‘all ratings’ page
* created a template to display all the channels a user has rated

Lat week, I did a little bit of work with cobranded builds, but that part of my work has been pretty quiet. I also added Firefox 3 support to iHeartMiro and put out the 1.1 release. We finally put out the new moderation interface, and I think it looks really good.

Matt got a new server up for the Guide (PCF5) and I spent Friday getting that set up to take over from PCF4 (the old server). It’s much faster than even PCF4 was, so it should be good for a while.

The rest of my time has been spent with personalized recommendations. It’s coming along well and hopefully you’ll all be able to see it soon.