Dev Derby Articles
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An AR Game: Technical Overview
An AR Game is the winning entry for the May 2013 Dev Derby. It is an augmented reality game, the objective being to transport rolling play pieces from a 2D physics world into a 3D space. The game is playable on GitHub, and demonstrated on YouTube. The objective of this article is to describe the underlying […]
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Announcing the December Dev Derby Winners
IndexedDB lets web applications store structured data for fast online and offline use. Data can be stored using key-value pairs, and values do not need to be serialized (as they do with document-oriented databases) or coerced into a relational structure (as with relational databases). Recently, creative developers from around the world demonstrated just how powerful […]
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Dev Derby for January – show us your best orientation!
As you might know, each month we have a Dev Derby as part of Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), and each of them are focused on a certain technology where people can compete with their submissions.
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Announcing the winners of the July 2013 Dev Derby!
This past summer, some of the most passionate and creative web developers out there innovated with the File API in our July Dev Derby contest. After sorting through the entries, an all-star cast of former judges–Peter Lubbers, Eric Shepherd, and David Walsh–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not a contestant? There are other reasons […]
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Announcing the winners of the April 2013 Dev Derby!
This past April, some of the most creative web developers out there showed us what they could do with Web Workers in the April Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our expert judges–James Padolsey, Janet Swisher, Maire Reavy, and Randell Jesup–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not a contestant? There are other […]
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Announcing the winners of the March 2013 Dev Derby!
This past March, some of the most creative web developers out there showed us what they could do for the mobile Web in the March Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our our three expert judges–Craig Cook, Franck Lecollinet, and Guillaume Lecollinet–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not a contestant? There are […]
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Comic Gen – a canvas-run comic generator
The first time I wanted to participate on Dev Derby was on the May 2012 challenge, where the rules were that you should use websockets. At that time I thought that I could use NodeJS and SocketIO. But the time kept running and I ended not having any cool ideas for an app. Since then […]
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Announcing the February Dev Derby Winners
Touch events help you make websites and applications more engaging by responding appropriately when users interact with touch screens. A user touching a screen is very different from a user clicking a mouse button, so special care must be taken to ensure that touch-enabled Web applications respond to touch screen interactions in ways that users […]
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Accepting February Dev Derby entries for one extra day
Wait a minute, there are how many days in February? Looks like leap day got the best of us. Earlier today, we ended the February Dev Derby prematurely, making it impossible for some of you to submit those last-minute demos for a couple of hours. To make up for this oversight, we will accept February […]
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Geolocation explained – a quick screencast
If you’ve been here last week, you might have seen the webinar and geolocation Q&A with Remy Sharp. Sadly enough, we had a problem recording the screen so we recorded this replacement screencast yesterday night to give you a quick introduction to the Geolocation API. Once you are up to speed (or refreshed your memory) […]
