{"id":4028,"date":"2015-05-21T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2015-05-21T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:05:10","slug":"beer-and-tell-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2015\/05\/21\/beer-and-tell-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer and Tell &#8211; May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once a month, web developers from across the Mozilla Project get together to organize our poltical lobbying group, Web Developers Against Reality. In between sessions with titles like &#8220;Three Dimensions: The Last Great Lie&#8221; and &#8220;You Aren&#8217;t Real, Start Acting Like It&#8221;, we find time to talk about our side projects and drink, an occurrence we like to call &#8220;Beer and Tell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webdev\/Beer_And_Tell\/May2015\">wiki page available<\/a> with a list of the presenters, as well as links to their presentation materials. There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/air.mozilla.org\/webdev-beer-and-tell-may-2015\/\">recording available<\/a> courtesy of Air Mozilla.<\/p>\n<h2>Groovecoder: WellHub<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/u\/groovecoder\/\">Groovecoder<\/a> stopped by to share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellhub.co\/\">WellHub<\/a>, a site for storing and visualizing log data from wells. The site was created for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.up.co\/communities\/usa\/tulsa\/startup-weekend\/5958\">StartupWeekend Tulsa<\/a>, and uses WebGL (via <a href=\"http:\/\/threejs.org\/\">ThreeJS<\/a>) + <a href=\"http:\/\/webvr.info\/\">WebVR<\/a> to allow for visualization of the wells based on their longitude\/latitude and altitude using an Oculus Rift or similar virtual reality headset.<\/p>\n<h2>Osmose: Refract<\/h2>\n<p>Next up was <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/u\/Osmose\/\">Osmose<\/a> (that&#8217;s me!), who shared some updates to <a href=\"http:\/\/refract.mkelly.me\/\">Refract<\/a>, a webpage previously shown in Beer and Tell that turns any webpage into an installable application. The main change this month was added support for generating <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.chrome.com\/apps\/about_apps\">Chrome Apps<\/a> in addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/Apps\">Open Web Apps<\/a> that it already supported.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This month&#8217;s session was a productive one, up until a pro-reality plant asked why we were having a real-life meetup for an anti-reality group, at which point most of the people in attendance began to scream uncontrollably.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in attending the next Beer and Tell, sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.mozilla.org\/listinfo\/dev-webdev\">dev-webdev@lists.mozilla.org mailing list<\/a>. An email is sent out a week beforehand with connection details. You could even add yourself to the wiki and show off your side-project!<\/p>\n<p>See you next month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a month, web developers from across the Mozilla Project get together to organize our poltical lobbying group, Web Developers Against Reality. 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