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August 2012

Promote MDN WordPress Plugin

Do you like MDN and run a WordPress site? We made a WordPress Plugin to Promote MDN.

It is based on WordPress developer extraordinaire freediver's excellent SEO Smart Links plugin. The plugin automatically and transparently links keywords and phrases to MDN. The keywords and phrases are determined by a special Promote-MDN page on the MDN wiki. It has plenty of configurable features - links in RSS feeds, open links in new window, setting exceptions and limits, and adding your own custom keywords. It's initially available in English, Deutsch, Español, Nederlands, Polski, Português (do Brasil).

We'd love to hear your feedback on the dev-mdn mailing list. The code is on github if you want to send us bug reports and suggestions.

MDN wiki gets a brain transplant

The Mozilla Developer Network's wiki, which used to run on the MindTouch platform, is now running on the Mozilla-built Kuma platform. Based on the Kitsune platform that powers SUMO, this new wiki system provides incredible performance, flexibility, and power. On top of all that, because we built it, we have a great deal of capability to update and improve it. In fact, it's already been upgraded three times since we launched it at the end of July!

If you're curious about the new system, check out Getting started with Kuma. If you'd like to learn more about the KumaScript language that provides scriptable templates for the wiki, have a look at Introduction to KumaScript.

The MDN writing community sends a tip of the hat and an enormous "thank you" to our development team: Luke Crouch, Les Orchard, James Bennett, David Walsh, and Craig Cook. Bonus kudos go out to these folks in IT and WebOps: Jake Maul, Jason Thomas, Chris Turra, and Sheeri Cabral. And of course, don't forget the guys in QA and security that tested this stuff for us: Stephen Donner, Raymond Etornam, and Adam Muntner.

These guys worked very hard -- sometimes too hard -- for the last few months. We're easing off a bit to let them catch their breath, but we have lots of excellent new stuff coming!

July 2012

MDN Kuma Update

The new MDN wiki platform, Kuma, which leverages the Kitsune codebase and will replace Deki, is scheduled to launch on July 16. More information on the kuma wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Kuma

FISL - Porto Alegre, 25-28 July

  • Community Dinner: 24 July
  • MDN Apps Hack Day: 27 July on site at FISL with Christian Heilmann, Jeff Griffiths, Shez Prasad, John Hammink, Artur Adib and many more! Learn about DevTools and Hacking on Apps.
  • Docs Localization Sprint: 28 July on site at FISL with Sheppy
  • Community Work Day: 29 July in Porto Allegre

Additional events in Brazil:

  • July 27: MDN Apps Hack Day at FISL (Porto Alegre)
  • July 28: MDN Documentation & Localization Sprint at FISL (Porto Alegre)
  • July 29: Campus Party Brazil Keynote by Christian Heilmann and John Hammink (Recife)
  • August 1: Developer Meet Up (Sao Paulo)
  • August 2: Evangelism Reps Training (Sao Paulo)
  • August 22 & 23: The Next Web (Sao Paulo)
  • August 30 & 31: BrazilJS (Porto Alegre)
  • September 1: MDN Developer Meetup & Doc Sprint (Porto Alegre)
  • MDN Event Calendar - track Mozilla Developer Network hack days, doc sprints and meetups in Brazil and around the world

Upcoming Dev Derbies

July: No JavaScript

Code with no.js!

Who needs JavaScript? The expanding capabilities of HTML and CSS make it easier than ever to create rich user experiences for the Web. Mark Pilgrim captures this in Dive into HTML5 when he advises, "Scripting is here to stay, but should be avoided where more convenient declarative markup can be used." Today, declarative markup can be used to accomplish more than ever.

Dynamically adapt to different screen sizes using CSS media queries. Make a page come alive with CSS transitions and animations. Create eye-popping graphics and animations with 3D transforms. Warn users about invalid input with HTML form validation. Provide rich media with graceful fallbacks using HTML5 video and audio. The open Web lets you do all of this and more, all without a single line of JavaScript.

So hold the JavaScript and show us what you can do this month in the July Dev Derby!

August: Camera API

Say cheese!

The Camera API lets you access (with permission) the cameras of mobile devices. With the Camera API, users can easily take pictures and upload them to your web page.

September: Geolocation & Camera API

Wish you were here!

With Geolocation, you can get the user's physical location. With the Camera API, you can access their mobile camera. What can you do by combining the two? People, places, photos. Go!

Mobile Web Development best practices

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I'm not sure what content is applicable for this newsletter but, if it does fit, I would like to see us showcase some mobile Web development docs and events as part of the mobile Web compatibility effort.

Beyond the Code

As you probably know, Mozilla is a not-for-profit organization. So if the bottom line is not what drives our efforts, what is it? What are the motives behind the code we write? This is what we're trying to answer in Beyond the Code, a blog that shows why and how people engage with Mozilla. In short, it's for the betterment of the Web. But make sure to read Beyond the Code for more details on community, standards, events and open-source code and how this all works together!

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