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Feb 17

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Retiring drumbeat.org – our plans

Drumbeat.org in it’s current state has been live for a year and has helped support the Drumbeat community that:

  • has produced numerous projects that have since become core components to the Mozilla Foundations work efforts,
  • helped us run international events in Barcalona and London,
  • lead numerous community events worldwide.

We wanted a platform where people could let people could tell the world about their web projects, have the community help them out and have them made better. We received loads, with some of my favourites being:

These are all amazing projects but you might have noticed one thing – they’ve all now outgrown what we provide at drumbeat.org. Read more

Feb 8

Come work with me for the Mozilla Foundation

We’re looking to recruit this week (14th March 2012) – watch this space!

At the moment I’m the only developer on my team at Mozilla, in fact I’m the only person in my team. I am “Team Ross”. Thankfully in March this will change, we’ve already hired a designer and we’re looking to add at least another developer to work on supporting the Mozilla Foundations work, events and communities.

If that’s already got you wanting to apply then please have a read of the job spec and get your application in – http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oIkXVfwE. Read more

Jul 3

Writing jQuery/javascript that doesn’t suck

At the start of the year I was asked by the London Web Standards Group to do a talk at their January meet-up and after a bit of thinking I decided to talk about writing jQuery/javaScript that doesn’t suck; I’ve had to clean up plenty of badly written code in the past and I therefore thought I had some decent things to say. It must have gone well as the London jQuery user group asked me to give it again in their July met-up (which is on the 4th July). I included reference to plenty of external sites in the talk and they can ALL be found in this post (and a few extra bonuses). Read more

Aug 24

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Another weird IE6 (and 7 and 8) bug

This morning I saw an email going around the LBi mailing list from one of the application developers mentioning some weird behavior noticed in IE.

In a nutshell a load of CSS modules had been concatenated into one file leading to quite a large number of selectors being used. He found that after a certain point (4096 selectors) IE would ignore everything after it. I had never heard of this before and from reading some comments I got on Twitter a few other folk hadn’t either… Read more

Mar 28

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Ask Ross anything!

Yesterday night I had planned to come home and write up some slides on something interesting for todays BarCamp at The Guardian offices. Instead of that I came home, noticed that there was beer in the fridge and decided it would be a good idea to drink them all.

Therefore I have no slides, no idea for an interesting talk and have decided that instead of me talking about stuff that I deem interesting I am going to throw those kind of choices out to you guys instead. In a blatant rip off of talks hosted by Norm! in recent BarCamps I will be taking questions from the audience (assuming I get one) on anything and everything (with hopefully amusing results).

If you didn’t manage to get a ticket but would still like me to answer your questions (I’m hoping that the talks may be recorded or videoed in some way) then please leave questions in the comments below (indeed this could be a good place for anyone at BarCamp or not to leave me their contributions…

Lets see how this one pans out…..

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