Mozilla Hacks Weekly, September 8th 2011

Thursday again, and we in the Mozilla Developer Engagement team are happy to present you with another Mozilla Hacks Weekly!

Weekly links September 8th 2011

If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment, contact us on Twitter or through any other means.
Here we go!

Christian Heilmann

A picture of Christian Heilmann That is quite some natural looking skinrendered in WebGL.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Christian, he’s available on Twitter as @codepo8.

Havi Hoffman

A picture of Havi HoffmanHow the Guardian’s custom CMS & API helped take content strategy to a traditional publisher – Martin Belam blogs about UX, information architecture, digital media and his work at The Guardian on currybetdotnet. This post explains the importance of the right tools (API!) for publishing and managing content on today’s “Splinternet.”

Havi can be found on Twitter as @freshelectrons

Janet Swisher

A picture of Janet Swisher Rick Waldron shows how to Synchronize playback of two videos with Popcorn.js.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Janet, she’s available on Twitter as @jmswisher.

Jeff Griffiths

A picture of Jeff Griffiths Jeff Atwood published a post this week on identity that neatly outlines the need for BrowserID: “Web browsers will have to be rewritten to understand basic identity protocols.” Several comments pointed to BrowserID as an implementation of what he has in mind.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Jeff, he’s available on Twitter as @canuckistani.

Rob Hawkes

A picture of Rob HawkesA3 is a new WebGL library by Paul Lewis. It’s still early days but the demos are pretty impressive and I can’t wait to see how it progresses in the future.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Rob, he’s available on Twitter as @robhawkes.

Robert Nyman

A picture of Robert NymanPatternizer  – HTML5 canvas stripe generator Great tool to use the canvas element to generate backgrounds with compelling patterns.

If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Robert, he’s available on Twitter as @robertnyman.

Stormy Peters

A picture of Stormy Peters Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? This article fascinated me. Making decisions takes energy and if you are low on energy, you’ll make snap decisions or do nothing at all. Think this doesn’t matter to you? What time of day you file that bug could affect how the maintainer reacts to it…

Stormy can be found on Twitter as @storming

About Robin Hawkes

Robin thrives on solving problems through code. He's a Digital Tinkerer, Head of Developer Relations at Pusher, former Evangelist at Mozilla, book author, and a Brit.

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