I have spent much of the last fifteen years trying to build bridges between the two solitudes of computing: academic researchers on the one side, and working developers on the other. These efforts have largely failed, but have done so in interesting ways. This talk will explore why the wide gulf between research and practice persists, and outline a new plan for trying to narrow it based on scurvy, smoking, and statistic
A free (libre), open-source (GNU LGPL) web-conferencing system developed with support from the Mozilla Foundation's WebFWD project. Designed for online education, BigBluebutton provides voice- and video-conferencing capabilities that include conference recording, presentation uploads, virtual whiteboard, and simultaneous webcam users.
The BigBlueButton server runs on Linux, but virtual machine images are available for running the server on other platforms.
Writing efficient user interfaces is the main maxim, here at Vimperator labs. We often follow the Vim way of doing things, but extend its principles when necessary.
Towards this end, we've created the liberator library for Mozilla based applications, to encapsulate as many of these generic principles as possible, and liberate developers from the tedium of reinventing the wheel.
Have you ever been interested in what extensions are available for Firebug? If yes, take a look at what I have found. Frankly, I was quite surprised how many Firebug extensions already exists out there.
Slow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:
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* Performance report card
* HTTP/HTML summary
* List of components in the page
* Tools including JSLint