Time for Mozilla hacks Weekly again, with some nice reading suggestions from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team.
At the end of this blog post, you also have all the Developer Engagement team members and what they work on. If you are interested in discussing more, contributing or taking part of our work, don’t hesitate to contact us!
Weekly links
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.
The picks this week are:
- On the Viability of HTML5 Games, by Dave Mahon
- Page Inspector – Firefox 10 has an awesome new inspector for looking at and manipulating the layout of content. Take a look!
- HTML Goodies: The Ultimate HTML Resource
- Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
- The Web is the new Terminal: Are you using the Web’s Keyboard Shortcuts and Hotkeys? by Scott Hanselman
- Pinboard: Are you looking for a new bookmarking/sharing tool? Used to use both delicious and Google Reader sharing and am now enjoying Pinboard. It’s like a cross between delicious and Evernote.
- CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10: Microsoft has announced IE10 will support CSS 3D transforms. This will help let you build excellent content that’s broadly supported, since Firefox and WebKit both have this as well.
- Firefox goes 2-digit, time to check your UA sniffing scripts
- Román Cortés » 1k Rose
- Learn HTML – It’s not just for programmers, it’s written and presented to make it easy for designers, bloggers, content and e-commerce managers, marketers to learn about the code used to write web pages.
- Classic Mistakes Enumerated: A must read for anyone who develops software. Project management expert Steve McConnell outlines the most common mistakes made in software projects. The first section (People) might only be interesting to managers, but the rest should resonate with everyone.
- The newly introduced Google Chrome for Android lets developers do remote debugging over USB
- DailyJS: Unix and Node
The Developer Engagement team
Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team work with writing articles, documentation – such as MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) – public speaking and generally helping and informing about open technologies and Mozilla products. If you are interested in following our work, here are the team members:
Barry Munsterteiger
Barry is our Creative Instigator and is working on interesting and limit-breaking demos.
Twitter: @mozBarry
Christian Heilmann
Christian is Mozilla’s Principal Evangelist and is working with HTML5, Open Web, BrowserID and Developer Tools in Firefox. He is also maintaining the @mozhacks account together with Robert Nyman.
Blog: http://christianheilmann.com/
Twitter: @codepo8
Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd
Eric is the Developer Documentation Lead for the MDN documentation and everything surrounding it.
Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/
Twitter: @sheppy
Havi Hoffman
Havi works with Mozilla Labs and WebFWD, and maintains the @mozlabs account.
Twitter: @freshelectrons.
Janet Swisher
Janet is working on MDN documentation and is organizing doc sprints to ensure we have premium quality on MDN.
Blog: http://www.janetswisher.com/
Twitter: @jmswisher.
Jean-Yves Perrier
Jean-Yves is another one of our technical writers working on MDN documentation.
Twitter: @teoli2003.
Jeff Griffiths
Jeff is working with the Add-ons SDK (Jetpack).
Blog: http://canuckistani.ca/
Twitter: @canuckistani
Joe Stagner
Joe is working with Web Apps Developer Ecosystem & Partner Engagement, HTML5 and the Open Web.
Blog: http://www.misfitgeek.com/
Twitter: @MisfitGeek
Rob Hawkes
Rob is working on HTML5 games and the Open Web.
Blog: http://rawkes.com/
Twitter: @robhawkes
Robert Nyman
Robert is working with HTML5, Open Web, Firefox, WebAPI and maintains the @mozhacks account.
Blog: http://robertnyman.com
Twitter: @robertnyman
Shezmeen Prasad
Shezmeen is working on everything regarding events, organization and connecting conferences with Mozilla speakers.
Stormy Peters
Stormy is the Team Lead for the Developer Engagement team. managing it and evaluating our objectives.
Blog: http://stormyscorner.com/
Twitter: @storming
Tristan Nitot
Tristan is our Mission Evangelist and is focusing on the bigger picture of Mozilla.
Blog: http://standblog.org/blog/en
Twitter: @nitot
Will Bamberg
Will is working on documentation for the Add-ons SDK (Jetpack).
About Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
Technical Evangelist & Editor of Mozilla Hacks. Gives talks & blogs about HTML5, JavaScript & the Open Web. Robert is a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web and has been working since 1999 with Front End development for the web - in Sweden and in New York City. He regularly also blogs at http://robertnyman.com and loves to travel and meet people.