Web Developers Articles
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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 […]
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Push the Web Further at Hackanooga
If you enjoy pushing the limits of the open web platform, we want you to join us September 14-16 in The Gig City (Chattanooga, Tennessee) for a weekend of good food, good friends, and—most importantly—a unique opportunity to play on a citywide, 1 gigabit per second network. What happens when you hack with WebGL, WebRTC, […]
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HTML5 Web applications and libraries survey – first results
At Mozilla, we are dedicated to keep the web open and independent of a single company or technology. This means that users should have a choice of browsers and technology to use to go online and should not be blocked out because they can’t afford a certain device or are forbidden to change their browser. […]
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The Web Developer Toolbox: Modernizr
This is the third 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 third article is dedicated to the Modernizr library. Introduction Modernizer is a […]
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getUserMedia is ready to roll!
We blogged about some of our WebRTC efforts back in April. Today we have an exciting update for you on that front: getUserMedia has landed on mozilla-central! This means you will be able to use the API on the latest Nightly versions of Firefox, and it will eventually make its way to a release build. […]
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The Web Developer Toolbox: ThreeJS
This is the second of a series of articles dedicated to the 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 second article is dedicated to the ThreeJS library. Introduction ThreeJS is […]
