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Time again to share some good reading tips 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 or follow us on Twitter!
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:
- One sentence per line – On Sphinx text files
- Volunteer for Exciting New Image Description Project! – A cutting-edge image description project is underway at Bookshare
- bl.ocks.org – The first 15 seconds of the D3 show reel. Includes seamless transitions between a number of visualization types.
- Twitter Guide for Events – A mini guide to help event professionals implement successful Twitter tactics.
- An Ajax-Include Pattern for Modular Content
- The Responsinator – The Responsinator helps website makers quickly get an indication of how their responsive site will look on the most popular devices.
- Platform/AreWeFunYet – MozillaWiki. Tracks our progress on excellent support for gaming in the Gecko platform.
- Remote Debugging in Firefox Mobile
- The pxl effect with javascript and canvas (and maths)
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:
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
John is working on 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.