Articles for July 2013
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Interview with Parashuram Narasimhan, winner of the Offline Dev Derby
Parashuram Narasimhan won the Offline Dev Derby with The conference, his web utility for beating unreliable conference connectivity. Recently, I had the chance to learn more about Parashuram: his work, his ambitions, and his thoughts on the future of web development. The interview How did you become interested in web development? Like most computer science […]
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Firefox OS Simulator 4.0 released
It’s a good day for Firefox OS developers as we are releasing version 4.0 of the Firefox OS Simulator to the masses. In particular, this release is a boon for those developers that want to make money using their app in the Marketplace. What’s New in 4.0 An overview shot of the revised Dashboard New […]
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The Making of Face to GIF
Face to gif is a simple webapp that lets you record yourself and gives you an infinitely looping animated gif. In this post I will walk you through how it came to be and what I’ve learned from building the small app. It started with Chris Heilmann’s post about people losing expressiveness to internet memes. […]
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Web Audio API comes to Firefox
We have been working on implementing the Web Audio API in Firefox for a while now, and we currently have basic support for the API implemented on Firefox Nightly and Firefox Aurora. Web Audio provides a number of cool features that can be used in order to create music applications, games, and basically any application […]
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Firefox OS devices officially released!
Almost two years ago, we announced Boot to Gecko (B2G) here on Mozilla Hacks. We discussed the aims of the project and the work we were planning to do. Today, all that work has paid off and we now have official Firefox OS devices in store! Last week the first Firefox OS phones went out […]
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So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site?
The tools to get funded by the crowd should belong to the crowd. That's why I want to show you how to roll your own crowdfunding site, in less than 300 lines of code. Everything in this tutorial is open source, and we'll only use other open-source technologies, such as Node.js, MongoDB, and Balanced Payments. […]
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Interview with Koen Kivits, winner of the Multi-touch Dev Derby
Koen Kivits won the Multi-touch Dev Derby with TouchCycle, his wonderful TRON-inspired mobile game. Recently, I had the chance to learn more about Koen: his work, his ambitions, and his thoughts on the future of web development. The interview How did you become interested in web development? I’ve been creating websites since high school, but […]
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PeerSquared – one-on-one online teaching with WebRTC
It was somewhere in the midst of 2010 when I first learned that the people at Ericson Labs were working on an ‘open standards’ browser implementation for P2P video chat. I was excited right away. The fact that you could only use video chat in your web browser through Flash or other plug-ins bothered me. […]
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Firefox OS Building Blocks find a new home, and get more streamlined
One year ago we started working on what is known as “Firefox OS Building Blocks” with the idea of creating a set of reusable components in HTML/CSS which could be used to speed up markup development in pre-installed Firefox OS apps. When we started to implement the UI of Firefox OS’ core apps, we soon […]
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MDN community news moving to about:community
News about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) community, such as doc sprints, community meetups, and so on, has a new home on the Mozilla about:community blog, in the Developer Engagement category. This category will also cover other news related to the community involved in developer engagement/relations/outreach/evangelism (whatever you want to call it) for Mozilla. Subscribe […]