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It’s Thursday, meaning that all of us in Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team want to share our reading tips! And man, have we got a lot of good links for you this week!
At the end of this blog post, you also have all the Developer Engagement team members and what they work on. If you are interested in discussing more, contributing or taking part of our work, don’t hesitate to contact us!
Weekly links
If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment, contact us on Twitter or through any other means.
The picks this week are:
- Five Collaboration Tips from Introverts – Whether you write code, copy, or documentation, ship products, or build businesses, never forget that collaboration takes many forms.
- Chromium Blog: The Future of JavaScript – take a peek today!
- Wired Opinion: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox
- Lose the wait: HTTP Compression: – Thorough article on which and how to compress file when sending them through HTTP. There are a few tricky cases that can result in a server sending more data when compressing than when not compressing some files.
- Building the new AJAX mail UI : Instant notifications of new emails via eventsource/server-sent events: – Presents in detail how Fastmail.fm used server-sent events to implementing the push of new mail to their Web mail client.
- Mozilla leads in HTML5 accessibility support – Technical director of TPG Europe Steve Faulkner opined on Twitter that the test results suggested “Mozilla’s commitment to HTML5 accessibility is second to none”.
- Mozilla throws ‘freedom’ at Microsoft, Google, Apple tanks A close look at our recently released 2012 Roadmaps for Firefox, Platform, Apps and more.
- Vendor-prefixed CSS Property Overview by Peter Beverloo
- cdn js – the missing cdn
- Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle on Vimeo
- “Fluid Simulation with Turing Patterns” by Felix Woitzel
- Mozilla Popcorn Learning Lab – Eventbrite
- Client-side Storage – Slides and links. (note on the slides: they contain WebKit-specific code to show a point and where the implementation differs between engines. Naturally we all want everything to work in as many web browsers as possible)
- Tracking JavaScript execution during startup
- Field Guide to Web Applications
- The Designer’s Guide to the OSX Command Prompt
- ʀoToᴙ.js: rotate3d manipulation library – lightweight and extensible
The Developer Engagement team
Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team work with writing articles, documentation – such as MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) – public speaking and generally helping and informing about open technologies and Mozilla products. If you are interested in following our work, here are the team members:
Barry Munsterteiger
Barry is our Creative Instigator and is working on interesting and limit-breaking demos.
Twitter: @mozBarry
Christian Heilmann
Christian is Mozilla’s Principal Evangelist and is working with HTML5, Open Web, BrowserID and Developer Tools in Firefox. He is also maintaining the @mozhacks account together with Robert Nyman.
Blog: http://christianheilmann.com/
Twitter: @codepo8
Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd
Eric is the Developer Documentation Lead for the MDN documentation and everything surrounding it.
Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/
Twitter: @sheppy
Havi Hoffman
Havi works with Mozilla Labs and WebFWD, and maintains the @mozlabs account.
Twitter: @freshelectrons.
Janet Swisher
Janet is working on MDN documentation and is organizing doc sprints to ensure we have premium quality on MDN.
Blog: http://www.janetswisher.com/
Twitter: @jmswisher.
Jean-Yves Perrier
Jean-Yves is another one of our technical writers working on MDN documentation.
Twitter: @teoli2003.
Jeff Griffiths
Jeff is working with the Add-ons SDK (Jetpack).
Blog: http://canuckistani.ca/
Twitter: @canuckistani
Joe Stagner
Joe is working with Web Apps Developer Ecosystem & Partner Engagement, HTML5 and the Open Web.
Blog: http://www.misfitgeek.com/
Twitter: @MisfitGeek
John is working on Rob Hawkes
Rob is working on HTML5 games and the Open Web.
Blog: http://rawkes.com/
Twitter: @robhawkes
Robert Nyman
Robert is working with HTML5, Open Web, Firefox, WebAPI and maintains the @mozhacks account.
Blog: http://robertnyman.com
Twitter: @robertnyman
Shezmeen Prasad
Shezmeen is working on everything regarding events, organization and connecting conferences with Mozilla speakers.
Stormy Peters
Stormy is the Team Lead for the Developer Engagement team. managing it and evaluating our objectives.
Blog: http://stormyscorner.com/
Twitter: @storming
Tristan Nitot
Tristan is our Mission Evangelist and is focusing on the bigger picture of Mozilla.
Blog: http://standblog.org/blog/en
Twitter: @nitot
Will Bamberg
Will is working on documentation for the Add-ons SDK (Jetpack).
About Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
Technical Evangelist & Editor of Mozilla Hacks. Gives talks & blogs about HTML5, JavaScript & the Open Web. Robert is a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web and has been working since 1999 with Front End development for the web - in Sweden and in New York City. He regularly also blogs at http://robertnyman.com and loves to travel and meet people.