Articles by Jay Patel
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Firefox 3.6 is here!
Firefox 3.6 has some cool consumer facing features like Personas and a better Plug-in Updater, but developers have a lot to be excited about too. Developers will appreciate the increased stability, especially the work done to prevent crashes with third party software. There are also enhancements like improved JavaScript performance and optimizations to speed up […]
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Hacks v2.0
As you may have noticed, Hacks looks a bit different today. That’s because we’ve completely redesigned the site. We wanted to make it easier for everyone to not only enjoy the new content we publish, but also to find past articles and demos. With Firefox 3.6 just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to […]
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It's all about web developers!
Ever wonder which industries have the most web developers? Do you know how many people develop for the web on Linux? Are there more web designers out there than web developers? Where do web developers hang out and what do they think of the resources out there today? Which JavaScript library is the most popular? […]
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Introducing the new MDN website
This week, Mozilla unveiled the newly redesigned Mozilla Developer Network, the latest incarnation of MDC. The website has evolved over the years and we recently decided to change the name from Mozilla Developer Center to the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) to better reflect the developer segments that make up our community and provide a better […]
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Are you a web developer or designer?
If you are a web developer or designer, we can use your input. After gaining some great insights from our previous survey on Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5, we have decided to go broader and get a better industry-wide snapshot of web developers. We have created a new survey in our continued effort to better […]
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PromoteJS – A Worldwide Call For Improving JS Documentation Visibility
This is a guest blog post by Chris Williams, the curator of JSConf. We are proud to support the PromoteJS campaign and hope everyone will join us to improve JS docs and make the MDN a better place for all web developers. PromoteJS – A Worldwide Call For Improving JS Documentation Visibility JS is not […]
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Results from our Developer Survey #2
To follow up on the developer survey from last November, we did a second survey this past March after the releases of Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5 to gauge developer reactions to the latest features in the browser and a much improved version of everyone’s favorite developer tool. In this post we’ll share the results of […]
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MDN Learning: A place to ratchet your Web development skills
If you’re looking to improve your Web development skills, we have compiled some great resources from around the Web to help every level of developer dig into their favorite open Web technologies. Our new MDN Learning space serves as a starting point for anyone interested in learning more about Web development. While there is already […]
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Add-on Con 2010
This is a cross-post from Dan Horner of our Add-ons team, who would like to invite any web developers interested in Add-ons and browser extensions in general to Add-on Con. Hi All – wanted to use my first post on the Mozilla Developer Network blog to remind you all about Add-on Con which is taking […]
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Real-time server visualization with canvas and processing.js
This is a guest blog post by Logan Welliver, Chief Creative at Cloudkick. He is a graphic designer by training and a web designer in practice. Cloud management company Cloudkick has released a real-time server monitoring visualization based on canvas and processing.js, that was co-developed with Alastair McDonald of processing.js fame. The product is designed […]