Articles having tag: DEV DERBY

May Dev Derby: Show us what you can do with Websockets

The May Dev Derby is underway. A monthly contest hosted by the Mozilla Developer Network, the Dev Derby gives you the chance to apply the technology you read about on this blog, push the web forward, and compete for fame, glory, and prizes. This month, we are...

MDN downtime on May 8th, 2012

By Janet Swisher

Update 2012-05-08: Thanks to last-minute magic by Mozilla IT, MDN won’t be completely unavailable after all. However, it will be running on a single virtual machine rather than three physical servers, so expect worse than usual performance during the...

Announcing the March Dev Derby Winners

By John Karahalis

Three-D interfaces have been a fascination for as long as we have used computers. CSS 3D transforms allow you to add depth to effects, making more exciting and more engaging user experiences possible. By moving and rotating content in the X, Y and Z axes you...

HTML5 audio and audio sprites – this should be simple

By Chris Heilmann

As we’re having a HTML5 Audio developer derby this month, I thought it fun to play with audio again. And I found it sadly enough pretty frustrating. One thing I proposed in a lot of talks is using the idea of CSS sprites and apply them to HTML5 audio....

Interview: Marco Castelluccio, IndexedDB Dev Derby winner

By John Karahalis

Marco Castelluccio accomplished a first last month when he won both first and second place in the IndexedDB Dev Derby for his entries eLibri and FileSystemDB. But that’s not all Marco has done to help push the Web forward. In just the last few months,...

March Dev Derby: Show us what you can do with CSS 3D transforms

By John Karahalis

The March Dev Derby begins today! A monthly contest hosted by the Mozilla Developer Network, the Dev Derby allows creative web developers to push the web forward and compete for fame, glory, and prizes too. This month, we want to see what you can do with CSS...

Accepting February Dev Derby entries for one extra day

By John Karahalis

Wait a minute, there are how many days in February? Looks like leap day got the best of us. Earlier today, we ended the February Dev Derby prematurely, making it impossible for some of you to submit those last-minute demos for a couple of hours. To make up...

Q & A With Michal Biniek: HTML5 Hacker and Frequent Dev Derby Winner

By Havi Hoffman

Editor’s Note: Michal Biniek is a frontend developer on the Innogames Lagoonia team, and an enthusiast of JavaScript and new web technologies like HTML5/CSS3, WebSockets, and WebRTC. Back in November, michal.b took 2nd place in the

Dev Derby February – working with touch events

By Robert Nyman

It’s February and time for our next Dev Derby! Dev Derby is a part of Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), and each of them are focused on a certain technology where people can submit their demos. This month, we want to see what you can do with touch events!...

Announcing the December Dev Derby Winners

By John Karahalis

IndexedDB lets web applications store structured data for fast online and offline use. Data can be stored using key-value pairs, and values do not need to be serialized (as they do with document-oriented databases) or coerced into a relational structure (as...