Blogging from Boston Dev Day

Asa and I have traveled to Boston for the dev day that is happening. You can probably get a sense of what is going on by reading the schedule on the wiki, so what can be relayed that you won’t read there? Well…the Hotel @ MIT is sweet, though the air conditioning is on and it 45 degrees outside. About 35 of us are sitting in a big conference room, each of us equipped with an orange thermal “Boston Dev Day” mug as a gift from Mozilla. Shaver is cranking us through the morning schedule like John Stewart emcee-ing (sans tux) at the Oscars…keeping it light-hearted and only a *bit* behind schedule…and then ahead of schedule…great job Shaver!

Lots of great presentations so far.

• Mark and John presented on extension building for Firefox. Check out Fuel to learn about a JavaScript Library designed to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are familiar to them.
• Beltzner talked about Mozilla Labs, including Joey, The_Coop, and UI experience (using some great slides from Alex Faaborg).
• BSmedberg presented about LXR and Bonsai – super helpful for developers who want to search for check-ins to the source or who want to track how things have changed.
• Rob Sayre presented on Mozilla’s automated testing for Fx 3 and Gecko 1.9.
• David Humphrey from Seneca College up North talked about teaching Mozilla. IMO, this is a great place to focus some community efforts. Check out Teaching Mozilla.
• Then Asa and I talked about community. Yeah…it was the same schtick…we want to help the community…send us your ideas! (p.s. Pav is still making a weekly request for a pony. Sorry…not part of the program.)
• Vlad presented very cool 3-d features, specifically related to the gaming world.

Off to lunch…more later…

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