Web Developers Articles
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Introducing the Firefox OS App Manager
The Firefox OS App Manager is a new developer tool available in Firefox 26 that greatly improves the process of building and debugging Firefox OS apps, either in the Simulator or on a connected device. Based on the the Firefox OS Simulator add-on, it bridges the gap between existing Firefox Developer tools and the Firefox […]
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Firefox OS Development: Web Components and Mozilla Brick
In this edition of “Firefox OS: The platform HTML5 deserves” (the previous six videos are published here), Mozilla’s Principal Evangelist Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) grilled Mozilla’s “Senior HTML5 Engineer Angle Bracket Coordinator” Matthew Claypotch (@potch) about the exciting new possibilities of Web Components for Web App developers and how Mozilla’s Brick library, a collection of custom […]
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Mozilla goes to Washington
Last month, Mozilla Foundation employee Jess Klein was honored by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy as a Champion of Change for her work with Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Before the White House event, Mozilla sponsored a Civic Hackers’ Happy Hour in DC at canvas.co. Here’s an excerpt […]
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New Features in Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 24
Releases have recently rolled, and there are a slew of new features coming to the developer tools in Firefox 24. Firefox 24 is currently in our alpha channel Firefox Aurora, and will hit the main release channel on September 17th, 2013. A little alitteration leads to lots of cool features coming this release. I’m only […]
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Speed Up App Development with X-Tag and Web Components
In the last few years we’ve witnessed an evolution in what ‘app’ means to both developers and consumers. The word app evokes the idea of a rich, task-oriented user experience with highly optimized user interface that responds to its environment and can be used on an array of common devices. In order to make development […]
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How to Spread The Word About Your Code
You spent an entire weekend building a library, jQuery plugin, build tool, or other great piece of code you wanted to share far and wide, but after some tweets and a failed attempt to make the front page of Hacker News, your creation languished, unloved, in a GitHub repo. A common situation for many developers […]
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Launcher.io – Launch and run free open-source web applications in just 30 seconds – a WebFWD project
There is no longer any doubt: web apps are the focal point of the cloud. From database-as-a-service to platform-as-a-service to security-as-a-service and beyond, the entire *aaS model has the web app as its center of gravity. If you’re a full-fledged developer, then taking full advantage of an app-centric universe is no big deal. Creating new […]
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Codebender: physical programming on the web – a WebFWD project
What is codebender? What problem does it solve? Whereas the cloud-based, software-as-a-service development has made it easy to develop by reading some tutorials and start hacking, physical computing is lacking far behind. This used to be in part due to the difficulty of designing hardware, but platforms such as the Arduino have made this a […]
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The Web Developer Toolbox: Backbone
This is the fourth in a series of articles dedicated to useful libraries that all web developers should have in their toolbox. The intent is to show you what those libraries can do and help you to use them at their best. This fourth article is dedicated to the Backbone library. Introduction Backbone is a […]
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Welcoming the new kid: Web Platform Docs
Documenting the open Web and Web standards is a big job! As Mozillians, we’re well aware of this — documenting the open Web has been the mission of the Mozilla Developer Network for many years. Anything we can do to further the cause of a free and open Web is a worthwhile endeavor. With so […]
