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About & Authors

Welcome to Mozilla Hacks!

Mozilla Hacks is one of Mozilla’s most important channels for developer outreach and engagement. We want it to be one of the key resources for people developing for the Open Web, talking about both news and in-depth descriptions of technologies and features. We will cover both development tips and tricks in general, but also look at features in Mozilla’s products from a technical perspective – to show our approach and line of thinking, and hopefully inspire other companies to implement what we have.

Mozilla Hacks is, just like MDN (Mozilla Developer Network), a web browser agnostic resource, focused on the Open Web and sharing knowledge with all web developers out there.

We feature a lot of great authors, listed below!

More in-depth information can be found in the wiki page for Mozilla Hacks.

Behavior guidelines

Mozilla Hacks is a place based on mutual respect and understanding, and the way we address each other is supposed to reflect that. We expect anyone writing or commenting to use proper laguage and refrain from insulting other people. We reserve the right to remove anything that doesn’t qualify as decent behavior towards other people.

Writers/contributors

Members of Mozilla’s Developer Engagement Team are writing for Mozilla Hacks, but any other person is also welcome to contribute! If you know something interesting that would be great to share with the readers of Mozilla Hacks, please let us know!

Reach out to mozhacks [at] mozilla [dot] com or the Editor Robert Nyman, @robertnyman, with any feedback or ideas!

  • Chris Heilmann 94 posts

    Principal Evangelist at Mozilla for HTML5 and open web. Let's fix this!

  • Janet Swisher 58 posts

    Developer Documentation Developer

  • Paul Rouget 48 posts

    Paul is a Firefox developer and Tech Evangelist at Mozilla. He tweets as @paulrouget, and he is also behind the @FirefoxNightly account.

  • Rob Hawkes 20 posts

    Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes) thrives on solving problems through code. He’s addicted to visual programming, and can’t get enough of HTML5 canvas. Most of his waking life is spent working on crazy projects involving all sorts of new and exciting technologies, both on-line and off. Aside from his practical work, Rob is the author of Foundation HTML5 Canvas, which is all about making games with the new Web technology. You can find out more about him on his personal blog.

  • Havi Hoffman 14 posts

    Developer evangelism content wrangler & writer, maker of events for App developers, curator at Mozilla Labs. Tweets @mozlabs & @freshelectrons, gardens in Silicon Valley.

  • Jean-Yves Perrier 6 posts

    Jean-Yves Perrier is a Tech Writer in the Developer Engagement team. He can be followed as @teoli2003 on Twitter.

  • Austin King 5 posts

    Seattle based non-dogmatic Artist / Programmer type human. Working on the Identity team. Spell check is for the week.

  • Jan Honza Odvarko 5 posts

    Firebug lead developer

  • Gen Kanai 3 posts

    I am a member of Mozilla's Evangelism Team and direct business development for Firefox in Asia.

  • Benoit Jacob 3 posts

    I am a software engineer at Mozilla Corp., working on Gecko, specifically the Graphics and WebGL parts. I work from Mozilla's Toronto office.

  • Stormy Peters 3 posts

    Stormy Peters is Director of Websites and Developer Engagement at Mozilla. She is passionate about open source software and educates companies and communities on how open source software is changing the software industry. She is a compelling speaker who engages her audiences during and after her presentations and frequently speaks on business aspects of open source software.

  • Mark Coggins 2 posts

    Mark is head of Mozilla's Technology Evangelism group. He has held executive engineering and product management positions in other organizations, and was Director of Developer Relations at Netscape when the Mozilla project was initiated. He is co-founder of the BIRT open source project at the Eclipse Foundation, and is the author of five crime novels set in the Silicon Valley.

  • Jared Hirsch 2 posts

    @jaredhirsch hacks on Persona, tickles ivories, has sand in all his shoes.

  • Felipe Nascimento de Moura 2 posts

    A passionate developer working with Open Source Web Technologies for about 8 years, is nowadays a Senior Development Analyst at the Portal Terra in Brazil. Felipe is also one of the organizers of BrazilJS, the Brazilian JavaScript Conference, and one of the founders of the foundation with the same name. Likes to create new projects, as well as trying new technologies and pushing things to their limits! "Changing the world is the least I expect from myself!"

  • Jonas Sicking 2 posts

    Jonas has been hacking on web browsers for over a decade. He started as a open source contributor in 2000 contributing to the newly open sourced mozilla project. In 2005 he joined mozilla full time and has since been working on the DOM and other parts of the web platform. He is now the Tech Lead of the Web API project at mozilla as well as an editor for the IndexedDB and File API specifications at W3C.

  • dhorner 2 posts

    Dan Horner is the Product Marketing Manager for apps and add-ons @ Mozilla

  • Ondřej Žára 2 posts

    Ondřej Žára likes to experiment with anything related to JavaScript, HTML5 and other web technologies. He showcases many of his projects at http://ondras.zarovi.cz/. He is currently employed at Seznam.cz, a.s., focusing mainly on popular mapping service Mapy.cz as well as HTML5 evangelism. From time to time, he tweets about JS stuff as @0ndras.