Conferences Articles
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Want to go to Full Frontal in Brighton, England this Friday? We got tickets!
photo by Lily Full Frontal is a JavaScript centric conference in Brighton, England on the 11/11/11. The simplest way to describe it is “a splendid kick into your lower back side” event when it comes to what’s hot and amazing int he world of scripting. The Mozilla Developer Network has 3 tickets to give out, […]
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HTML5 at FOSDEM2011 – Oven Fresh Web Tech means Kernel folk
I just returned from my first ever FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium – a hard-core open source conference with more Linux Distros and amazing open source software packages being showcased that I could take in (although this might also be because of the fact that the conference served beer all day). The free conference attracts […]
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How we rebuilt the viewsourceconf.org website
There are a lot of interesting challenges when working with legacy code at a large scale, but rebuilding from scratch usually isn’t an option. Recently we had the chance to start fresh and rebuild Mozilla's View Source website for the upcoming conference in London. Here are a few highlights of the architectural decisions we made to make the site faster, more secure, and more reliable.
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Moving browsers and the web forward (video)
A few days ago I was asked to deliver the first talk of the amazing Beyond Tellerand conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. The talk Breaking the barriers – moving browsers and the web forward introduced a lot of new ideas and technologies that are worked on my Mozilla and others to make the web of the […]
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Accelerating the overall web experience – Mozilla at Velocity Europe
This year’s Velocity EU conference had a special presentation round where browser makers talked about the performance of their specific products. I was invited last minute to represent Firefox and originally was asked to show benchmarks, impressive demos and how we compare to others. As browsers get released in very short intervals these days, this […]
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With the power of HTML5 – speaking at Converge SE in Columbia, SC
Last week the Converge SE conference in Columbia, South Carolina attracted about 400 designers, developers and product managers to attend workshops and hear keynotes about all that is new and great in web development. As you can see on the conference schedule the conference covered a lot of topics, ranging from building communities and providing […]
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HTML5 and the web of tomorrow – live from Web2Day in Nantes, France
I am currently here in Nantes, France at the Web2Day conference giving a talk on the topic of HTML5 and how it affects the audience (consisting of business people, startups, managers and a few developers. The slides of the talk are available Slideshare: The talk was streamed live via UStream and the recording is available […]
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HTML5 Battles still to be won – a talk at Open Web Camp III
Last Saturday was the Open Web Camp at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Around 300 developers, designers and project managers signed up to hear up-to-date information about web technologies, accessibility and design. The event was free and, although it started very early for Silicon Valley standards, very well attended. Mozilla’s contribution (other than being a […]
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Broken promises of HTML5 and what's next? – a presentation at HTML5DevConf
Yesterday Mozilla attended the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco, California to give a keynote presentation. The very packed schedule of the conference already covered a lot of topics around the subject matter, which is why we considered it worth while to contribute with a talk that told tales from the trenches of advocating HTML5 […]
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Selling HTML5 to a consulting company
I just spent a weekend in a resort in Mallorca. I was invited by an IT consultancy from Frankfurt to join them at their off-site and give a two hour (re)introduction to HTML5. The audience and the challenge The consultancy is very successful in what they do and are very much a Java / native […]
