A New Direction
My friend Dion Almaer and I started Ajaxian.com a few years back out of an intense enthusiasm to track the nascent Ajax movement, a community-driven discovery of new techniques to wring better user interfaces out of old browser technologies. Our earliest role at Ajaxian was to help spread the word that whole new worlds of experiences were possible with the current browsers; as time passed, this role has largely evolved into tracking the latest news in the Ajax community.
In parallel with these efforts, Dion and I have had separate careers, in each of which we’ve had the opportunity to use the techniques we’ve covered at Ajaxian (and in some cases do entirely different kinds of development work). As we compared notes along the way (with ourselves and others in the industry), both of us noticed ample opportunities to make Web development more productive than it is today. Eventually, the size of this opportunity became so distracting that we started exploring how we might pursue efforts to address it full-time.
To make a long story short, we’re announcing today that Mozilla has hired both of us to lead an initiative to create Web development tools–to make life better for Web developers. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be building up a team and sharing more details with the community.
I have immense respect for the crew at Moz; I couldn’t be more thrilled that they’ve invited us to join them and for the opportunity at hand.
Read more at:
- Ajaxian.com
- Mozilla Labs
Congratulations Ben! I wish you the best! (to both you and Dion)
(Please keep us updated with the cool stuff you will be doing @ Mozilla)
Cheers,
-Alex
Alex Ruiz
October 13, 2008 at 11:39 am
All the best! Ajax applications are cool. Please keep bringing new techniques in this.
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October 13, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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October 13, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I’m happy to be the first on your blog to welcome you to Mozilla!
Gen Kanai
October 13, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Hi Ben, it’s great to have you in the Bay Area now and at Mozilla
We’ll have to grab some food some time.
Best,
Brad
Brad Neuberg
October 13, 2008 at 5:54 pm
There will be quite a lot of exciting application coming out! congrats~
Sean
October 13, 2008 at 8:40 pm
[...] Dion Almer of Ajaxian fame has announced he is leaving Google to head up a new developer tools group at Mozilla with longtime friend and Ajaxian cofounder Ben Galbraith.Β The two are quite the dynamic duo in the web development sphere and should bring a lot of energy and fresh ideas to the table in Mozilla’s new venture. [...]
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October 14, 2008 at 10:35 pm
[...] Στόχος είναι η παρουσία εργαλείων, τεχνολογιών και γνώσης ώστε να διευκολυνθεί η κοινότητα των developers και κατα συνέπεια ολόκληρο το οικοσύστημα χρηστών και developers από πιθανές νέες εφαρμογές και υλοποιήσεις. Για αυτό τον λόγο, ο Ben Galbraith και ο Dion Almaer από από το Ajaxian γίνονται μέρος της ομάδας του Mozilla Developer Tools Lab για να δημιουργήσουν κάτι που ο Din περιγράφει ως We don’t want to think “we need VB on the Web” We want something more. [...]
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October 15, 2008 at 9:31 am
Good luck! I think you will both do great work. I can’t wait to see what comes out of the effort.
Rick
October 21, 2008 at 12:47 am
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