{"id":3959,"date":"2014-11-03T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2014-11-05T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:50:00","slug":"beer-and-tell-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2014\/11\/03\/beer-and-tell-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer and Tell – October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once a month, web developers from across the Mozilla Project get together to debate which episode is the best episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Between screaming matches, we generally find time to talk about our side projects and drink, an occurrence we like to call “Beer and Tell”.<\/p>\n

There’s a wiki page available<\/a> with a list of the presenters, as well as links to their presentation materials. There’s also a recording available<\/a> courtesy of Air Mozilla.<\/p>\n

Peter Bengtsson: django-html-validator<\/h2>\n

Our first presenter, peterbe<\/a>, has created a small library called django-html-validator<\/a> that helps perform HTML validation via either a middleware that runs on every request, or a test request client that you can replace the default TestCase<\/code> client with. It validates by sending the HTML to validator.nu<\/a>, but can also be set up to use vnu.jar<\/code> locally to avoid spamming the service with validation requests.<\/p>\n

Peter Bengtsson: Pure JS Autocomplete<\/h2>\n

Previously, peterbe showed an autocomplete engine based on JavaScript that called out to a search index stored in Redis. This time he shared some new features:<\/p>\n