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Speaking at Adobe MAX (Extending Brackets) 12 Apr 2013 | 07:36 pm
In just a few weeks, I’ll be giving a talk at the Adobe MAX conference about extending Brackets with JavaScript. Web developers will find that Brackets is pretty easy to extend using techniques they a...
Brackets Quick Open: That’s No Regex! 26 Mar 2013 | 07:39 pm
Ever since I first used TextMate several years ago, I’ve been hooked on “Quick Open” (the feature that lets you jump to any file in your project with just a few keystrokes). I have worked on Brackets’...
Test driving Brackets 3 Jan 2013 | 01:01 am
I got test infected a number of years ago, so it was perfectly natural for me to want to test-drive changes to Brackets, now that I’m back into writing code. In fact, I had a perfect bug to work on fo...
My next career step: Adobe’s Brackets project 5 Dec 2012 | 07:50 pm
Mozilla has been an extraordinary place to work over the nearly 4 years that I have been with the organization. Many times that I’ve been out and about wearing a Firefox shirt, random strangers would ...
Web developer personas (are you in there?) 21 Nov 2012 | 08:53 pm
User personas are a useful tool for when you want to discuss needs that users have and, ultimately, features that meet those needs. Personas help keep you talking about real people versus some random...
r2d2b2g is becoming the Firefox OS Simulator! 8 Nov 2012 | 09:28 pm
It’s been a month since Myk Melez posted an introduction to r2d2b2g, a prototype Firefox add-on that makes it easy to try out B2G (Mozilla’s new, completely web platform-based mobile OS) on your deskt...
New device and a multifactor nuisance 18 Oct 2012 | 06:08 am
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is great. Thanks to 2FA, even if someone manages to figure out my password, they still need to have physical access to my phone. Well, I actually have two phones that I...
What is a “developer”? 12 Oct 2012 | 12:30 am
My goal as a product manager at Mozilla is to represent the needs of web developers well and make sure that Mozilla is doing what we can to help them. I came to the realization last night that when I ...
GitHub adds a command line, and so should you! 18 Sep 2012 | 08:19 pm
Yesterday, GitHub announced their new “Command Bar”. I am a fan of command lines, and this is an awesome addition for navigating GitHub. I love being able to get more done without pulling my hands awa...
An Important Role for SVG 14 Aug 2012 | 05:49 pm
Yesterday, I came across a link to JustGage, a JavaScript library that uses Raphaël.js to create attractive, dashboard-style gauges. Since it uses Raphaël, which in turn builds upon SVG, these gauges ...
