Articles by Havi Hoffman
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BrazilJS Firefox OS Apps Hack Day: fun, games & JavaScript
BrazilJS Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A long way from where I live and work in Mountain View, California. BrazilJS—two intense, action-packed days of technology showmanship, conversation, and immersion in the exuberant developer culture of Brazil. And plenty of JavaScript, which sounds something like “Jhavascreep-chi” when pronounced in Brazilian Portuguese. The days […]
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Interview: Marco Castelluccio & Mozilla Apps in Ubuntu
Hacks blog readers might remember Marco Castelluccio. Back in March we published an interview with Marco after he took first and second place in the IndexedDB Dev Derby with eLibri and FileSystemDB. Since then Marco has ramped up his contributions to Mozilla and the Open Web through a Google Summer of Code project building web […]
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Testing the Firefox browser on mobile websites: Are you game?
Friends and hackers, we have a challenge Are you a developer who’s passionate about Mozilla’s mission on the open Web? We need your help: We’re looking for someone to build a game to help keep the Web open as it goes mobile. There’s a Firefox mobile website testing app which we think would make a […]
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MDN Hack Day Tour would like to thank…
Attention UK hackers: MDN Hack Day London takes place this Saturday May 12, at the newest Mozilla Space, on lovely St. Martin’s Lane. Designers, developers, and friends are all invited to register. Hacky goodness guaranteed. Many Thanks Yous, One Mozilla It was a whirlwind week and a half for the crew of the Mozilla MDN […]
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Mozilla MDN Hack Day on Tour, Heading South
The MDN spring tour continues with a trip into autumn in the Conosur – the southernmost region of South America. We’re heading south to participate in MozCamp, a gathering of the Mozilla Hispano community, and to meet web developers in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; São Paulo, Brazil; and Santiago, Chile. We’ll introduce some exciting […]
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Q & A With Michal Biniek: HTML5 Hacker and Frequent Dev Derby Winner
Editor’s Note: Michal Biniek is a frontend developer on the Innogames Lagoonia team, and an enthusiast of JavaScript and new web technologies like HTML5/CSS3, WebSockets, and WebRTC. Back in November, michal.b took 2nd place in the
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Save the Date: MDN Hack Day Comes to NYC on March 24
A bunch of us Mozilla Developer Network folks — web developers, technical writers, developer evangelists and cat herders like me — will be hosting MDN’s first Hack Day in the great city of New York. Like many teams who work together at Mozilla, we’re geographically dispersed, and manage to meet in real life a few […]
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Interview: Nikhil Suresh on Building His Winning Canvas Demo
Editor’s Note: Back in November, Nikhil Suresh (@nklsrh2) from Sydney, Australia, won the MDN Developer Derby with his distinctive, non-violent 2-person shooter game Bouncy and the Apple. We thought it’d be fun to learn a little more about Nikhil and what inspires him. Congratulations Nikhil, and thanks for your thoughtful words about Mozilla. We’re honored […]
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Congratulations November Dev Derby Winners
Canvas is a new HTML5 element which creates a digital “drawing board.” A web developer can use one of these drawing boards along with some JavaScript to create simple shapes, graphs, animations, interactive games, and more. Recently, eighteen creative minds showed us just how powerful and important Canvas is by sharing their work in the […]
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Hacking Innovation: At WebFWD, Lean Startup Methodology Meets Open Source
WebFWD is Mozilla’s accelerator and incubator program for Open Innovation on the Web. It launched at the start of the summer, around the same time I joined Mozilla as a writer and wrangler of content, so I feel a personal stake in helping the program flourish and thrive. In the lean and rapid style of […]
