Getting started with Paladin development
From our wiki: Paladin is an initiative by the Mozilla community to create the best gaming technology available for the open web. Paladin sits at the intersection of 3D gaming, JavaScript framework and...
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Github’s Compare View
GitHub recently hit one million users, and in celebration of this fact, I thought that I’d post about some of GitHub’s hidden but useful features. The first one I want to show you is compare view:...
View ArticleGetting git working in mozilla-build
Mozilla-build is a meta-installer for Windows that installs of the dependencies necessary for building Firefox. Some of the projects that I’m working on, such as Processing.js and Paladin use Python,...
View ArticleGetting started with Input.js
Input.js is a JavaScript library to map controller and OS-specific USB enumerations provided by the Gamepad API in Mozilla Firefox to an ideal virtual gamepad. While developed for use in Paladin,...
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Getting a fullscreen
One of the demos that Dave and I worked on for our Processing.js Workshop Tour was a full page Processing.js sketch that displayed words from tweets containing “#OWS”: Occupy your browser You can see a...
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I contributed to Firefox and you can too
Here in CDOT at Seneca College, we regularly push the boundaries of what is capable in browsers with projects like Processing.js and Popcorn.js. But sometimes we break those boundaries and we find neat...
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Validating Open Badges
During the Foundation All-hands last week I had the opportunity to work with Brian Brennan, who is the technical lead on Mozilla’s Open Badges project. One of the problems that interested me during the...
View ArticleCross-origin video
Back in December when we were working on Popcorn Maker v0.1, we were trying to integrate a template by Brian Chirls that implemented chroma-keying. Chroma keying is a process where you film a video...
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Butter v0.2 and Popcorn v1.2
Two weeks ago the Popcorn team released Butter v0.2 and Cornfield v0.2, and this week we’ll be releasing Popcorn v1.2. Butter v0.2 My two main contributions to Butter in this release was scrolling in...
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HackTO
Yesterday Scott Downe, Matthew Schranz, Dave Seifried, and I participated in HackTO, the Toronto event of HackDays. The idea was to create an application in only 7 hours using these APIs: Atomic Reach...
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