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What are some resources for getting started writing a Firefox Addon? Is there an API guide somewhere? Is there a getting started tutorial somewhere? Is there a developer discussion board somewhere?
We tried to make https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions answer all those questions. The first three links in the documentation section are about getting started (that includes something like Adam's link, before it became stale). The newsgroup and the irc channel in the Community section are the official discussion boards.
Mozilla is very complex, so any kind of API guide would be overwhelming and hard to write. So your best bet is to check the code snippets page (also linked from the MDC Extensions page), then search MDC/google, then ask in the forums.
The official page listed above is good, but this is the most useful page I have found to get started:
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/01/28/how-to-develop-a-firefox-extension/
More recent official post
And I found starting with an extension generated from the Add-on Builder to be a great start also. You go right to tweaking JavaScript and seeing what happens:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/tools/builder
You are also really going to want to be able to debug, you have two choices for that:
ChromeBug - Which gives you FireBug for Firefox Extensions.
WebStorm, but you need to use the early-access version and it currently requires a patch I wrote.
Here's the official starter page from Mozilla for writing your first extension.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_first_WebExtension
I found greasemonkey to be a great starting point... I used it to create some functionality for a site, then I used this script compiler to turn my script into a working add-on. Of course it's machine generated... but it's very few files and pretty easy to understand. Just unzip the .xpi and tinker away.
This is a great resource to start learning how to build a FireFox extension:
How to create Firefox extensions
This is an awesome tutorial and will covers most type of extensions.
Edit: Updated link to use archived copy since original page no longer exists
This has the best solutions:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions
but you can try greasemonkey script compiler
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Please tell me what kind of programs you use insted of JIRA/confluence. I don't like jira because the design is so Java style. For example I like the PivotalTracker for tracking fresh projects.
What do you suggest? THX!
Phabricator is a suite of web applications that help software companies communicate about software effectively. It was created at Facebook.
Didn't try it yet, but looks like a good option.
For Project Management, Trello is a sweet free alternative, albeit with much fewer features.
For sharing files with the team, Google Drive is a good option (the shared folders feature is awesome).
For VCS+more, you can use something simple like Github, or more powerful tools like Redmine or Kiln.
A quick search on Google gets you more quasi-interesting projects:
FogBugz (Fog Creek software, again)
Gemini
Squish
Bontq
Elementool
YouTRACK (from the lovely chaps who make InteliJ IDEA)
Lighthouse
The Bug Genie
personally i like http://leankitkanban.com for my project/ task tracking and i use http://pbworks.com for my wiki at work
i think its complete personal taste though
Redmine is a good alternative. It combines wiki and issue tracker pretty well.
Maybe CounterSoft Gemini works for you?
Mindtouch is really great. They have a community version, and their scripting is very intuitive. Searching is fast, and their user community is really lively.
Try with Fusion Forge is nice http://www.fusionforge.org/ works for me..
A lot of projects in our company use Trac (see The Trac Project). It is a combination of a lightweight wiki, issue tracker and integrator for Subversion commits. Written in Python, there are some plugins available for it, so it may expanded pretty easy. I like JIRA and Confluence more, but that is a personal preference.
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I'm the primary tech guy for an e-commerce site that gets 700k pageviews/mo. and does over $1M/yr. in online revenue. We've long outgrown our in-house LAMP e-commerce application and I'm searching for alternatives.
I've looked at almost every OSS shopping cart I could get my hands on, but none of them have met our needs. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that we're going to have to go with a hosted solution (which isn't all bad, since it offloads a lot of work from me.) However, most of the hosted solutions I'm seeing are designed for the typical small business owner who simply wants to sell widgets from his garage. I need something that is more aimed at a customer who already has qualified technical staff to implement the solution. Our needs include:
Integration with Google Checkout. Our company president formerly worked on the project while at Google. It's a no-go if we suggest something else. He's also a Google Analytics addict therefore that is a requirement as well.
Powerful API to get data both in and out of the e-commerce platform. This will need to integrate with our CRM application and accounting systems.
Interface has to be fully customizable. This would primarily be done with CSS, but CMS-liked editing feature for non-technical staff would be a huge bonus. This is what has kept us on our home-grown system for so long.
If the solution is installed rather than hosted, it will have to run on Linux. We don't use Windows on the backend and are not likely to consider doing so anytime soon.
What I've looked at so far:
Yahoo Shopping (Sales rep I talked to was iffy about Google Checkout support. Deal breaker)
Prostores (I've learned the hard way not to tie a business to any company associated with Ebay)
Nexternal (Sample store unimpressive and unacceptably slow)
Magento would be my best suggestion but you could look at PrestaShop.
What about OsCommerce? It's very customizable and there are tons of additional checkout options and free extensions available for it.
I ended up going with BigCommerce.
The host that I use http://www.Station5.net has auto installs for osCommerce, Zen Cart, and nopCommerce. I used osCommerce and it was very simple to install. It is very customizable from the front end, but if you need to you can always open up the code and add any new functionality you need as long as you know PHP. Another option for you could be to use the Joomla CMS and add the shopping cart features that you need to that. There are a lot of shopping cart plugins for Joomla so you can customize it with the features you need. You can find them in the extension directory on the Joomla site.
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What project collaboration tools do you recommend for maintaining tasks, bugs, collaborating, messaging, storing files, wiki, etc?
I had a look at Remember The Milk, but not sure if it's ideal! Backpack looks good and reasonably priced; has anyone used it?
I find it nice to have one web based project management tool in which I can get an overview of everything related to the project(s). This includes user (developer) administration, wiki, repository and most importantly time tracking with road mapping.
Redmine does the job for me.
And I normally use a git repository with it. It can be a wee bit difficult to set up on your web server but I found that it was worth the effort.
There's also related questions on stackoverflow like Project tracking/management tool.
Good luck.
I've used unfuddle which is quite good. It has a ticket based workflow along with git and subversion hosting.
A single project account is free, with payed accounts being charged by number of projects and amount of storage space used.
The Atlassian products are great but not cheap.
Jira for bug tracking
Confluence for wiki/collaboration
Pair this with Google App
Email
Chat
And you're rolling.
I would personally look into Mindtouch's products. There are even extensions/plugins that are suited to software development teams.
I'd recommend giving TeamLab a try. Maintaining tasks, collaborating, messaging, storing and editing files and wiki are featured. The only thing they lack is bug tracking.
Perhaps, if you can wait, Google Wave might be a good fit.
Depending on the size of you team (and other factors) a combination of Subversion & BugZilla might suffice.
Of course, Microsoft swears by it's VS Team Systems (haven't used it as the price tag is prohibitive)
TortoiseSVN is comfortable.
I would seriously look into Code Collaborator
Lighthouse is awesome if you want a hosted solution. It's basically the same as Basecamp, except with a software development focus.
The best I've used so far is SmartSheet (www.smartsheet.com) - I feel like one of those TV salesmen...spreadsheet like interface, stores all size files (and file versions), allows for discussions, alerts and reminders. Very flexible and easy to use.
I've heard of a few teams that use Basecamp, but I've always just used Trac. Trac is opensource and has a decent API for extensions.
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Related to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/139944/where-can-one-find-free-software-icons-images
I have a need for free weather-related icons. Specifically, I need icons that you might see in a ten-day forecast (clear day/night, rainy day/night, etc.) Where might I find such images?
Requirements: Like the author of the question linked above, I would prefer to not rip anyone's intellectual property off.
Weather.com has a free xml service for which they provide an SDK. The SDK includes icons in 3 sizes (31x31, 61x61, and 93x93) for about 48 weather conditions. I cannot find anything in their agreement that forbids using the icons for anything but their service. (Nor does it specifically grant free redistribution)
They are quite nice so it might be worth looking into:
http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html
http://flagrantdisregard.com/fd-weather-icons/
This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence so can be used in commercial works (with attribution)
http://jyrik.deviantart.com/art/Weather-Icons-Shiny-5215175
This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence and can't be used commercially.
These aren't great but they are on the NOAA site and they have many to choose from. See http://www.nws.noaa.gov/weather/images/fcicons/
Well a quick Google for "weather icons" produced good results. Or places like deviantART (2nd link) are a good bet.
The Buuf Icon set contains a subdirectory Things/Weda with 15 weather icons in it. It is CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0. No good for commercial apps, but okay if you are looking for something for a free app which I assume you are since you aren't willing to pay ;)
Hi you can find some really great icons here
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project
it's an openSource icon theme
You might The Open Clip Art website
This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.
http://openclipart.org/media/tags/weather
http://www.fordesigner.com/maps//3800-0.htm there is a free weather icons..
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I have a legacy web site in ColdFusion MX 2004. I'm re-writing it in .Net, so I don't want to pay $600+ for an upgrade to the latest version of ColdFusion, nor do I want to go through the (very large) site fixing version incompatibilities.
I often have to track down and fix bugs in the site.
A source-level debugger that would let me step through the code line-by-line and examine variables would be a HUGE time-saver.
Does anyone have experience using any of the third-party ColdFusion source-level debuggers?
There's no such thing as ColdFusion MX 2004, neither in name nor release year (CFMX 6.1 was released in 2003, and CFMX 7 was released in 2005).
FusionDebug supports all versions of CFMX from 6.1 onwards.
You may want to investigate BlueDragon.NET, which allows you to run CFML code on the .NET platform, and may make the transition easier for you.
The developer versions of ColdFusion are free so you can install the latest version, install debugging tools into eclipse and run debugging for free.
The other option, if you prefer to debug on your target version of CF, is FusionDebug which supports CF 6.1 and up.
There are certain debuggers listed here on Charlie Arehart's site.
http://www.carehart.org/cf411/#debug
This CF411 site has a whole lot of great info on various subjects.
You don't seem to have marked this question as answered. The answers are offered by others, but to be clear:
If you're running a version of CF prior to CF 8, then you can get line debugging using the available commercial third-party tool, FusionDebug (www.fusiondebug.com).
If you're running CF 8, it includes line debugging, for free.
Both approaches leverage the Eclipse IDE's built-in debugging capability, hooking it up to CF.
For more on each, I've written several articles:
The ColdFusion 8 Debugger Explained: Interactive Step Debugging for CF 8
Using the CF8 Debugger
FusionDebug Explained: Interactive Step Debugging for CFML
FusionDebug Tips and Tricks
Hope those help.
BlueDragon.Net is interesting, but I installed it and found out that it does not do source-level debugging.