Webdev:Meetings:2012-01-03

Meeting Info

No in-person meeting today, just update the wiki.

Open Items

• Our Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") is ON!
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Roundtable

jlongster

• Researching functional recursive descent parsers, writing a Scheme parser with it
• Ate lots of food
• Opened lots of presents
• Had some fun with joysticks (http://jlongster.com/2011/12/29/rotating-webpages-with-a-gamepad.html)
• Researching the awesome task.js library from Dave Herman (http://taskjs.org/)

I guess I need to to get back to work now.

lonnen

New Year's Custom: Diner breakfast.

mkelly

• Making gaems! https://github.com/Osmose/gaem
• Finishing up Affiliates Q4 work.

tofumatt

• Launched Mozillians with BrowserID
• Launching Careers (weird errors on dev -- looking into them) -- it's code-complete though
• Gonna be in MV next week

wenzel

• ate tons of food
• did I mention ate tons of food?
• finished Project 365 (omg!)
• worked on 2012 goals

Favorite New Year's customs: Fireworks!

willkg

• continued working on ES stuff for SUMO
• spent some time on friday looking at browserid in regards to writing scrapers and non-browser applications; the summary is that browserjs requires a javascript-enabled browser, so if you want your site to have an API for non-browser applications, you need to support another authentication method---ian suggested OAuth