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- RT @audubonsociety: Great news for birds! A federal judge has ruled that the administration's rollback of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MB… 11 hours ago
- RT @RepBarbaraLee: Low-income Alameda County residents (excluding Oakland and Berkeley) can apply to receive up to 2 months of rent assista… 15 hours ago
- RT @digitarald: Just jumped in the #MozillaLifeboat, after 9yrs open web. 3yrs @FirefoxDevTools Product Mgmt has been a 🚀. Guiding a passi… 15 hours ago
- RT @EnglishMossop: 250 fantastic folks are losing their jobs today. If you're looking for someone to be awesome in your organisation I'd lo… 18 hours ago
- RT @davidwalshblog: Sadly, after 8.5 amazing years, my Mozilla dream has come to and end. Excited for the next dream though! If you're lo… 18 hours ago
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BirdWalker, then and now
“About time, too. He’s been looking dreadful for days; I’ve been telling him to get a move on.“—Albus Dumbledore about his phoenix Fawkes after Fawkes burst into flame Just as Fawkes periodically must burst into flames and rise again from … Continue reading
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Birdsongs, Musique Concrète, and the Web Audio API
In January 2015, my friend and collaborator Brian Belet and I presented Oiseaux de Même — an audio soundscape app created from recordings of birds — at the first Web Audio Conference. In this post I’d like to describe my … Continue reading
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Highlights of the first Web Audio Conference
I recently had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the first Web Audio Conference, co-sponsored by IRCAM and Mozilla. I wanted to share some of the great things that I learned about there. Meyada, Hugh Rawlinson Meyada is a … Continue reading
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Using Google Maps in a responsive design
[When I’m not in the office, I’m often out birding and photographing birds. To keep track of my life list and bird photos I wrote a Ruby on Rails site hosted at birdwalker.com; you can see all the source on … Continue reading
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Video of my YUIConf talk about open web app development
The YUIConf folks have just posted their recording of a talk I gave there last year. I had planned to talk generally about the Firefox Marketplace, how it differs from other app stores, and how those differences create an overall … Continue reading
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Replacing Google Image Charts with D3.js
[When I’m not in the office, I’m often out birding and photographing birds. To keep track of my life list and bird photos I wrote a Ruby on Rails site hosted at birdwalker.com; you can see all the source on … Continue reading
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DevCon5 — on learning from games, Monty Sharma, Mass Unity
Monty Sharma gave a great talk this morning at DevCon5 about the current trends in games and what the rest of us can learn from them. He centers on three big ideas: Free-to-Play. Find a way to let dedicated users … Continue reading
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jsEverywhere: Apathy is the Enemy of Awesome by Nancy Lyons
Nancy Lyons of geekgirlsguide gives a real end-of-day pep talk about how failed communication and collaboration can kill projects. I’ll put in a few of her zingers and how I understand them: Learn how to talk about what you do … Continue reading
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jsEverywhere: PhoneGap CLI and PhoneGap Build Steve Gill, Adobe
Steve Gill is demoing “Cordova Client”, in which you have command-line tools to build, deploy, and manage Cordova-based applications on Blackberry, Android, and iOS. This is still in beta. It’s at github.com/filmaj/cordova-client. It requires Node.js, should be available in npm.
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jsEverywhere: From Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery by Morten Nielsen
Morten‘s presentation is a hilarious, compelling fable of what happens when a .NET shop relying on manual processes becomes a victim of its own success and ends up with an exploding number of software versions in the field. The fable … Continue reading
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