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Compiling to JavaScript, and Debugging with Source Maps
This is a tutorial on how to write a compiler which generates JavaScript as its target language, and maintains line and column meta-data in source maps for debugging. Storing line and column coordinates in a source map allows the end-user of the compiler to...
Introducing AWSBOX, the DiY PaaS for Node.JS – A Node.js holiday season, part 12
This is episode 12, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part, and covers awsbox. Once you’ve written a server in Node.js, how do you deploy it? Instead of using a pre-existing...
Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23
Another uplift has left the building and it’s time to take a look at what’s in Firefox Developer Tools in Firefox 23 currently Aurora, our pre-beta channel. You can download it from the Aurora Download page today. Firefox 23 is currently scheduled...
Building a Notes App with IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js
In this post, I’ll be talking about how to create a basic note-taking app that syncs local and remote content if you are online and defaults to saving locally if offline. Using Redis on the server-side When adding records in Redis, we aren’t working...
Pushing Firefox OS Apps to the Geeksphone
A push to device feature was added in the 3.0 release of the Firefox OS Simulator. This feature allows web apps to be pushed to a connected device by clicking one button in the Simulator Dashboard. Availability of the Developer Preview Phone from Geeksphone...
Speed Up App Development with X-Tag and Web Components
In the last few years we’ve witnessed an evolution in what ‘app’ means to both developers and consumers. The word app evokes the idea of a rich, task-oriented user experience with highly optimized user interface that responds to its environment...
Phones for Apps for Firefox OS
Update: Today, Monday, May 13 at 11:00am PDT, we closed the submission form for the Phones for Apps program. Thanks so much to all of you for your interest and enthusiasm. Your response has been overwhelming! We’ve received thousands of applications,...
Embedding WebRTC Video Chat Right Into Your Website
Most of you remember the Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! blog post right here in Mozilla Hacks demonstrating WebRTC video chat between Firefox and Chrome. It raised a lot of attention. Since then we here at Fresh Tilled Soil have seen a tremendous...
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...
Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 released
About 6 weeks ago, we wrote about the preview of Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 and now we’re happy to release it! New features In our preview coverage, we listed the new features for this version: Push to Device Rotation simulation Basic geolocation API simulation...
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