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  1. Building a Notes App with IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js

    • by and • IndexedDB, Node.js • 2 comments

    In this post, I’ll be talking about how to create a basic note-taking app that syncs local and remote content if you are online and defaults to saving locally if offline. Using Redis on the server-side When adding records in Redis, we aren’t working with Read more…

  2. Speed Up App Development with X-Tag and Web Components

    • by and • Web Developers • 5 comments

    In the last few years we’ve witnessed an evolution in what ‘app’ means to both developers and consumers. The word app evokes the idea of a rich, task-oriented user experience with highly optimized user interface that responds to its environment and can be used on Read more…

  3. Embedding WebRTC Video Chat Right Into Your Website

    • by , and • Featured Article, WebRTC • 25 comments

    Most of you remember the Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! blog post right here in Mozilla Hacks demonstrating WebRTC video chat between Firefox and Chrome. It raised a lot of attention. Since then we here at Fresh Tilled Soil have seen a tremendous amount of Read more…

  4. How to Spread The Word About Your Code

    • by and • Tools, Web Developers • 12 comments

    You spent an entire weekend building a library, jQuery plugin, build tool, or other great piece of code you wanted to share far and wide, but after some tweets and a failed attempt to make the front page of Hacker News, your creation languished, unloved, Read more…

  5. Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 released

    • by and • Developer Tools, Featured Article, Firefox OS • 30 comments

    About 6 weeks ago, we wrote about the preview of Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 and now we’re happy to release it! New features In our preview coverage, we listed the new features for this version: Push to Device Rotation simulation Basic geolocation API simulation Manifest Read more…

  6. Localization in Action, part 3 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 11

    • by and • A Node.JS Holiday Season, Node.js • 5 comments

    This is episode 11, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part about localization, hopefully making you feel all ready to handle that now! Using Our Strings So first we added the i18n-abide Read more…

  7. Web Payments with PaySwarm: Purchasing (part 3 of 3)

    • by and • Payments • 1 comment

    The Promise of Web Payments The first and second articles in this series outlined how PaySwarm is designed to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. The articles went on to explain how making the tools that have Read more…

  8. Mozilla Persona for the non-web

    • by and • Persona • 3 comments

    My good friend Nico Williams reckons that HTTP is the new TCP, and TCP the new IP. If this is the case, then perhaps the rest of this article isn’t worth reading. However, not every application – particularly in the slower-moving corporate world – is Read more…

  9. HiDPI support, HTML5 notifications, Parallel JS, asm.js and more – Firefox Development Highlights

    • by , and • Bleeding edge, Firefox Development Highlights, Firefox Nightly • 25 comments

    Time for another look at the latest developments with Firefox. This is part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). HiDPI support We’re happy to say that ico/icns with Read more…

  10. Web Payments with PaySwarm: Assets and Listings (part 2 of 3)

    • by and • Node.js, Payments, Standards • No comments yet

    The Promise of Web Payments The first article in this series on PaySwarm outlined how the technology is designed to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. It went on to explain how taking the tools that have Read more…