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MozSummit 2013
The beginning of October was a special time for me: Mozilla Summit 2013 was October 3rd to the 7th. Summit took place in three locations around the world: Santa Clara (US), Toronto (Canada), and Brussels (Belgium). Summit is a time where we can do a lot...
Giveaway: 10 David Walsh Blog USB Drives!
Whenever I get back from a developer event like a conference or Mozilla meetup, my wife immediately sounds the "nerd alert" horn. Why? Because I loooove getting schwag, and my office and wardrobe would attest to that. I was pretty excited when USBMemoryDirect got...
Tuts+ Interview with David Walsh
Rey Bango recently made the mistake of asking to interview me. After I made him hear my analysis of Arsenal and Tottenham, and shared with him my experience as a young fast food worker, we eventually got around...
GitHub and Mozilla Work Process
Nicholas Zakas sent out a call to Twitter asking developers who use GitHub as a primary CVS to share their working process. Mozilla uses GitHub for many (if not most, but I can't confirm that) mission critical web applications so I chimed in on...
One Year At Mozilla
When I was a naive but bright-eyed kid attending a small technical college in 2002, I was first introduced to Mozilla. The Mozilla browser looked incredibly similar to Netscape but provided a few additional development tools (like syntax-highlighted source windows)! Developing within Mozilla's browser really sparked...
Learn More, Faster with Treehouse
My sponsor, Treehouse, has mastered teaching complex development concepts and techniques using the visual media; something not easy to do, and neither is learning anew technology from scratch without proper guidance. Tutorials are nice but oftentimes make assumptions about current knowledge and don't tend...
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My new sponsor, Treehouse, is a web-based learning site that uses high quality video tutorials to teach you a new programming language, a new business strategy, and even place you in a job after you've graduated. Treehouse's learning path is great because...
$100 Off W3Conf Discount Code!
W3Conf is quickly approaching and if you haven't considered going, you're crazy you really should. The speaker line-up is full of legends: Lea Verou, Eric Meyer, my favorite Mozillian, Janet Swisher, and more. You may also bump into well-known developers Chris Coyier, Jacob Thornton...
Site Update: Treehouse, Forums, Newsletter!
I've been working on some major and minor site updates and I wanted to share them all with you! New Sponsor: Treehouse I'm super excited to have Treehouse as my new sponsor. Treehouse teaches developers how improve their skills in a variety of ways...
Confessions of a Web Developer XIII
It's been quite a while since I've gotten a few things off of my chest and since I'm always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: As Firefox OS inches toward a 1.0 release, I cannot wait to see how the product changes...