Mozilla is renewing our jQuery Foundation corporate membership for 2014, and giving 2 individual memberships to web developers in the Mozilla community! If you want us to consider you for a membership: 1. Join the ‘jquery’ group on Mozillians 2. … Continue reading
I talked recently at DjangoCon about how to build better Python packages. As engineers we all use each other’s open source libraries everyday so it’s nice when 1) they work, 2) they’re well documented, and 3) they’re well tested. For … Continue reading
When web developers build webapps, they frequently find the default behaviors of traditonal web sites conflicting with things that we frequently associate with those of Apps. One of these is the concept of “deep linking”. One of the foundations of … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I headed down to Porto Alegre to help out with a Mozilla hack day after BrazilJS. I was around at the BrazilJS event as well, but I only fielded the odd question as most attendees were … Continue reading
At Mozilla, we believe the web is the platform. It’s the one place where we can share apps across many devices using ubiquitous, open technologies: HTML5 and JavaScript. Today, where we have many devices running proprietary platforms at our fingertips, … Continue reading
Another month, another Beer and Tell: Remember, a Beer and Tell is a monthly Mozilla Webdev event featuring a series of lightning talks while staying hydrated with a beverage of choice. We successfully recorded this installment! If you just want … Continue reading
In case you missed last month’s blog post, a Beer and Tell is a monthly Mozilla Webdev gettogether involving cool hacks and malted beverages. We try to structure it like a series of lightning talks and — because all work … Continue reading
Between 23 and 25 March 2012, 50 people or so gathered in Lyon, France to create Web based games. The event is known as the Game Dev Party [fr], with this year being the second installment. A few friends and I … Continue reading
At our recent Mozilla All Hands, I shared some slides about Shipyard, a JavaScript MVC framework that is making it’s way into Add-on Builder. It’s not finished, but since I shared it there, it felt appropriate to share what there … Continue reading
Node.js is an evented system, that allows JavaScript developers to write fast, non-blocking, applications that run independent of the client and have access to aspects of the underlying operating system such as the file system. Installing Node.js on systems such … Continue reading
