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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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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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    Get One Month of Treehouse Membership Free

    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...

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    $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...

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    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...

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    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...