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• Videos: getting started with your Flame device

  The Flame Developer reference phone is currently on its way to developers who either are Mozillians, bought them or have created apps for it. You can buy the flame device online at everbuying, for $170 including postage and packing and world-wide delivery. There is no contract and not obligation to ...

  Posted August 14, 2014 by Chris Heilmann

• Programming games in the browser

  A programming game is a computer game where two or more programs compete with each other. What are the basic requirements for programming games and can they be realized in browsers? With JavaScript? 4 basic claims There are 4 basic claims. Competing programs: must run isolated from the main program. ...

  Posted August 13, 2014 by Stefan Trenkel

• How can we write better software? – Interview series, part 2 with Brian Warner

  “How can we, as developers, write more superb software?” A simple question without a simple answer. Writing good code is hard, even for developers with years of experience. Luckily, the Mozilla community is made up of some of the best development, QA and security folks in the industry. This is ...

  Posted August 12, 2014 by Shane Tomlinson

• Building the Firefox browser for Firefox OS

  As soon as the Boot to Gecko (B2G) project was announced in July 2011 I knew it something I wanted to contribute to. I’d already been working on the idea of a browser based OS for a while but it seemed Mozilla had the people, the technology and the influence ...

  Posted August 7, 2014 by Ben Francis

• Using mozjpeg to Create Efficient JPEGs

  The mozjpeg project recently released version 2.1. It aims to improve the efficiency of JPEG encoding over existing encoders while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority of existing decoders. I’d like to explain how you can use this software to reduce the size of your JPEGs. Specifically, I’m going to ...

  Posted August 6, 2014 by Josh Aas