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worldwide. This is sourced by many Mozillians who support developers and
highlights happenings among web & app developers with a goal of
fostering greater points of collaboration to support them.
/ Welcome to the 5th edition of DevPulse
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Engagement/Developer_Engagement/DevPulse/July2014>:
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
*Google I/O: Where was the web?* Read some reflections
<http://mzl.la/GoogleIOU> on Google's largest developer event last month
from Principal Evangelist Christian Heilmann <http://mzl.la/ChristianH/>.
*OSCON <http://mzl.la/OSCON>* is a prominent open source developer
conference held each summer in Portland, Oregon and Contributor Benjamin
Kerensa <http://mzl.la/BenjaminK> is one of Mozilla's key organizers at
this year's event (happening next week, July 20-24). You can learn a bit
more about Benjamin and his thoughts on Mozilla in his interview with
the opensource.com blog, "three ways developers can contribute to
Firefox OS <http://mzl.la/BKFxOS>."
Project & event highlights
*Marketplace Day.* Lots of testing, translation, app reviews and
documentation was had by all on June 26. Check out the full run-down
<http://mzl.la/MPDayJune14>.
*Service Workers are coming!* Service Workers
<http://mzl.la/ServiceWorkers> are, at their simplest, scripts that act
as client-side proxies for web pages. As such, they open up several
possibilities for the Web that were previously only available on native
platforms. Read more on Hacks <http://mzl.la/ServiceWorkers>!
*DevTools team launches WebIDE June 23.* WebIDE <http://mzl.la/WebIDE>
allows you not only to debug apps inside Firefox, but also create new
ones from scratch based on the mortar templates <http://mzl.la/mortar>.
Instead of just being a debugging suite you now have a full multi-file
editor with autocompletion and a packaging system in the browser. This
turns any Firefox users into a potential app creator. More on Ars
Technica <http://mzl.la/ArsTechWebIDE>.
*Train the Trainer in Bangalore, India.* The focus of this event last
month was to train volunteers to recruit more volunteers in support of
launching FxOS in India. About 30 of the event's 80 attendees
participated in the Developer Outreach sessions. Check out the event
materials here <http://mzl.la/MozCampIndiaTTT>.
*New MDN Goodness.*
* Canonical Developing Gaia <http://mzl.la/GaiaGuide> guide.
* 4 new guides and new demos of the Web Audio API
<http://mzl.la/WebAudioAPI>.
* A number of new articles about manipulating media
<http://mzl.la/ManipulatingMedia>.
* Details on the Media Recorder API <http://mzl.la/MediaRecorderAPI>.
* Newly-updated Add-On SDK content scripts <http://mzl.la/AddOnSDK>
with sample code on GitHub <http://mzl.la/AddOnSDKGit>.
*Flame Developer Phones.* Last month we launched the Flame reference
phone intended to support Firefox OS developers worldwide. The phone is
available for retail sales, and the team also launched a targeted
feedback program called Foxtrot. Details on the phone (including how to
get one) are on the new Flame wiki page <http://mzl.la/FlameWiki>.
*Why web literacy?* While you may be familiar with Mozilla's Manifesto
<http://mzl.la/Manifesto>, sometimes it's good to take a step back and
ask why it matters. Check out this great white paper
<http://mzl.la/WebLiteracy> looking at why Mozilla cares about web
literacy.
App & web developer Perspectives
* Mozilla's Soledad Penadés <http://mzl.la/Sole> recently shared at
Amsterdam's GOTO conference <http://mzl.la/GOTO> how her experiences
building an app for Android led her to instead build for the web.
Don't miss Sole's full post <http://mzl.la/SoleGOTO>.
* Priyanka Nag <http://mzl.la/Priyanka> is a core MDN contributor.
Recently she was featured <http://mzl.la/YourStoryTT> in tech blog
YourStory. Our favorite quote: "I cannot work for people, I prefer
working with them.”
* A recording of the keynote of the SAPO Codebits conference in
Lisbon, Portugal with Principal Evangelist Christian Heilmann
<http://mzl.la/ChristianH/> addressing the hows and whys of Firefox
OS <http://mzl.la/SAPO>.
* Mozilla's Apps Blog <http://mzl.la/AppsBlog> highlights our apps
ecosystem. Examples include highlights of the World Cup content
<http://mzl.la/WorldCupApps> or the community components
<http://mzl.la/MPCommunity> of Marketplace. There are a lot of
dev-centric items as well - for example, tips on localizing apps
<http://mzl.la/Manana>, integrating app payments
<http://mzl.la/AppPmts>, or how developers can write compelling
marketing copy <http://mzl.la/MktgCopy> for their apps. A recent
post on marketing your app <http://mzl.la/MktgApps> comes from our
own Sakina Groth <http://mzl.la/Sakina>.
"Geekery" Highlights
* Did you know the Hacks <http://hacks.mozilla.org> blog gets over
200,000 unique visitors per month? If you have a story to share
about a technical problem you solved, or something our developer
readership would be interested in, see the Hacks wiki
<http://mzl.la/HacksWiki> for details.
* This post brings the beauty of math and physics to Javascript: a
double pendulum in 100 lines <http://mzl.la/doublependulum>.
* And, while we typically focus on numbers in the Geekery section, one
other item tied to other forms of geekery screamed out for attention:
* the elements of HTML <http://mzl.la/HTMLelements>: a nice overview.
Engaging with Developers Together
*Evangelism tools.* Janet Swisher <http://mzl.la/1iy8AQh> has developed
lots of new evangelism tools & ways to get involved.
* The new Community Evangelism <http://mzl.la/evangelism_get_involved>
wiki page describes all the different ways to get involved with
Technical Evangelism at Mozilla (and ways to stay connected with the
latest news and resources). It includes things like:
* A revived public evangelism@ mailing list <http://mzl.la/EvangelismML>.
* A new MozSpeakers group <http://mzl.la/MozSpeakers> on
Mozillians.org. In just the first 3 days after this group was
announced, over 60 people were accepted into this group. Please
check the "New Member Criteria" before you join!
* And a new speakers group <http://mzl.la/YamSpeakers> on the Mozilla
Exchange Yammer.
*Stack Overflow <http://mzl.la/SO>* is one of the /de facto/ places for
developers to go for help and answers. Start answering questions there
<http://mzl.la/SO>, and pointing other people to this resource. Mozilla
sponsors 5 tags here:
* Firefox-OS
* Firefox
* Firefox-developer-tools
* HTML5-apps
*Help plan the next Marketplace Day* by attending a Marketplace
Community meeting <http://mzl.la/MPCommMtg>; these happen very other
Monday at 2pm PST.
*Project prioritization.* Think there is something DevRel should be
working on but not in the current project list
<http://mzl.la/DevRelProjects>? We've launched a new process
<http://mzl.la/DevRelPrioritization> to receive your ideas and
prioritize them - please join us in using it!
*Jobs!* If you have the inkling to dive into a full-time role at
Mozilla, you can see all openings on the Mozilla careers page
<http://mzl.la/careers>; here, we wanted to highlight a few from our
Developer Tools and Apps teams:
* Developer Tools Engineer <http://mzl.la/DevToolsEng> (with
commentary from Nick Fitzgerald <http://mzl.la/NickFitz>).
* Senior Front-End Engineer, Apps <http://mzl.la/FEEngApps>
--
*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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