/Welcome to the 4th edition of DevPulse
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Engagement/Developer_Engagement/DevPulse>: a
monthly glance at stuff happening among and for developers, sourced by
many. Our goal is to create greater transparency and collaboration
around the various efforts at Mozilla to support mobile, web & app
developers.
/
Developer world news
* With Firefox for Android 29, Mozilla will now automatically convert
your Open Web App <http://mzl.la/UCmKIq> into a native Android app
<http://mzl.la/1qNj7JN>. Also see how ZDNet <http://mzl.la/ZDNet>
explains it.
* Tuts+ <http://mzl.la/1vi5lkP> has a useful compilation, "How to stay
on top of JavaScript" <http://mzl.la/1p5IHbU>.
* Mozilla's Chris Heilmann <http://mzl.la/ChrisH> challenges the
HTML5DevConference <http://mzl.la/1p2uDBI> audience: have we
declined into "write less, achive meh <http://mzl.la/1qNk84H>"?
* Google wants to know <http://mzl.la/1kUZGOH> what developers thing
about web technology. Tell <http://mzl.la/1vi6oRL> them!
Project & event highlights
*Marketplace Day: "All About Apps" on June 26* This is an all-day online
event that connects staff and volunteers around common tasks. There are
contribution opportunities for everyone, from rating and translating
apps to editing documentation to creating apps. Join anytime on that day
and pick tasks to complete, moderate a module yourself, or just be
convivial Check out the agenda <http://mzl.la/1ndv6xN>, which includes
specific times for specific topics. This will all take place in the
#marketplace IRC room.
* If you want to jump straight to the MDN docs track, check out the
etherpad <http://mzl.la/UCnz40>.
*Flame Reference Phone.* The Flame <http://mzl.la/Flame> is a reference
phone for developers to test out various app and OS features. They are
available via a retail site <http://mzl.la/everbuying> as well as
through Apps on a Flame <http://mzl.la/1lvwldv>, a phone program for
developers to port existing HTML5 apps built for other
marketplaces/platforms and for Firefox App developers with proven
Firefox Marketplace listings to build a new Firefox App for Firefox OS.
*Developer Tools in Firefox Beta.* Upcoming dev-friendly features in
Firefox Beta <http://mzl.la/1pYlHN9> include support for Firefox Hub
APIs allowing add-on developers to add their own content to the Firefox
for Android homepage; APK Factory, which allows developers to provide a
more familiar way for users to manage their Web apps; and other design &
workflow goodies.
*MDN Learning Area.* The MDN and WebMaker teams met for 2 days in London
and made a plan for collaborating on the new beginner-level content on
MDN. The team did a lot <http://mzl.la/1p2vJ0m>, including sketching out
launch content, a standard page structure, a preliminary roadmap, and
proposals for joint events (including MozFest).
*New MDN Goodies* h/t to Chris Mills <http://mzl.la/TWSzuV>
* Introducing the MediaRecorder API <http://mzl.la/MediaRecorder>,
which became available in Firefox 25 and will be available in
Firefox OS 2.0:
* Learn how to add captions and subtitles <http://mzl.la/1pYmf5L> to
HTML5 video
* Interested in what's happening on MDN moving forward? Check out this
rundown <http://mzl.la/1ixmgZ6> of weekly MDN content activities.
* /The little things add up/. The MDN team went through all MDN pages
that had errors in the in-wiki macro scripts that are used to
automatically generate certain types of content, The team fixed all
the cases in which they were not working correctly and resolved
hundreds of errors.
App & web developer Perspectives
*JSConf Recap.* Hear Soledad <http://mzl.la/Soledad>'s thoughts
<http://mzl.la/JSConf14> on the recent JSConf <http://mzl.la/1p2wq9U>. A
teaser: "...some discussion about physical and mental health and better
community building and other important non purely technical stuff that
usually never gets discussed in tech conferences."
*Feedback on Firefox Tools* on UserVoice
<http://mzl.la/UserVoiceDevTools> in May 2014
* The Developer Tools team have a 100% response rate to all the ideas
we've gotten!
* New ideas: 116 (+ 36 Closed)
* No of votes: 1939
* No of comments: 94
* Ideas' states updated by Mozilla: 141 (meaning we've changed the
state for them, e.g. Planned, Under Review)
* Responded to: 100% of the ideas
o 70 Under Review
o 40 Planned
o 6 Started
o 36 Closed
*Stack Overflow.* We sponsor and monitor a few tags on Stack Overflow
<http://mzl.la/StackOverflow>, a channel where developers ask questions
to solve problems. Robert Nyman <http://mzl.la/RobertNyman> put together
a dashboard <http://mzl.la/SODashboard> to see the engagement and data
for those specific tags.
*Guest Hacks blog post: PlayCanvas.* Read how the PlayCanvas game engine
went open source <http://mzl.la/1ixmVK3> by Will Eastscott
<http://mzl.la/WillEastCott>
 "Geekery" Highlights
We have a lot of data lovers serving app devs, and data often leads to
insights. This month:
* Unique visitors to the Hacks blog <http://mzl.la/UCoW2r> nearly
doubled from April to May: 208,406 Unique Visitors vs. previous
month's total of 117,850.
* Check out the steady strong growth <http://mzl.la/MDNGrowth> of MDN
editors over the past 9 years - h/t to Florian <http://mzl.la/Florian>!
* Our evangelist Robert Nyman <http://mzl.la/RobertNyman> has spoken
in 30 different countries <http://mzl.la/1ixn3cA>!
 Engaging with Developers Together
Working for and with developers is a hugely collaborative effort. Join us!
* Write for Mozilla Hacks <http://mzl.la/UCoW2r>
* Become an Evangelism Rep <http://mzl.la/EvangReps>.
* Attend Marketplace Day <http://mzl.la/1ndv6xN> on June 26. This
event supports people interested and at all levels of technical
ability. Specific activities include app localization, as well as
writing & localizing MDN documentation.
* Help localize strings for your favorite open source app or key core
app (including top-needed apps for our new markets). Get started
here <http://mzl.la/1mXd15Q>.
* Help with web compatibility! This month Mike Taylor
<http://mzl.la/MikeTaylor> introduced webcompat.com
<http://mzl.la/1hYCa46>, a contributor-driven initiative to fix
broken bits of the web.
* Join the conversations.
o Take part on Mozilla discussions <http://mzl.la/StackOverflow>
on Stack Overflow.
o Ask, answer and vote on ideas on UserVoice
<http://mzl.la/UserVoiceDevTools>.
o Developer Relations has an open meeting in the #devrel IRC each
Tuesday at 9am PST. Find the agendas and minutes here
<http://mzl.la/DevRelMtgs>.
--
*Diane (Bisgeier) Tate*
Program Manager, Mozilla Developer Engagement
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- @tbiz
<http://twitter.com/tbiz> -- US Mobile: +1-415-250-1724
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