- Joe Hewitt (programmer)
Joe Hewitt is a software programmer who is best known for his work on the
Firefox web browser and related software development tools like Firebug andDOM Inspector .His first project took place while still attending
Hopatcong High School . He created the websiteFeff World withDouglas Palermo .From 2000-2003, he worked on
UI programming atNetscape . Subsequently, he worked on AOL's Boxely UI project, which renders software such asAIM Triton andAOL Explorer .Recently, he has been working on
Parakey withBlake Ross . [ [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/276185_software03.html Software Notebook: Mr. Firefox looks to the future ] ] [ [http://www.fosdem.org/2007/interview/joe+hewitt Interview: Joe Hewitt | FOSDEM ] ] Parakey was acquired byFacebook in July 2007. [ [http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/press/Parakey_Press_Release.pdf Facebook press release] ] cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6907895.stm
title=Social site Facebook buys Parakey
publisher=BBC
date=Friday,July 20 2007
accessdate=2007-07-20]In July 2007, he led the release of the iUI user interface library which greatly simplified
Safari development for Apple'siPhone .In August 2007, he wrote the
iPhone -specific version ofFacebook . [ [http://www.talkcrunch.com/2007/08/23/interview-with-joe-hewitt-iphone-god/ TalkCrunch » Blog Archive » Interview With Joe Hewitt, iPhone God ] ]References
External links
* http://www.ddj.com/196802787
* http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/276185_software03.html
* http://allaboutusers.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/blake-ross-and-joe-hewitt-present-parakey/
* http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/0.1.htmlExternal links
* Official Parakey website - http://www.parakey.com/
* Official Joe Hewitt website - http://www.joehewitt.com/
* Interview with Joe Hewitt - http://www.fosdem.org/2007/interview/joe+hewitt
* WIRED Blogs interview: 'Meet Joe Hewitt, iPhone Web App Interface Guru' - http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/meet-joe-hewitt.html
* His Feff World website withDouglas Palermo - http://www.joehewitt.com/feff
* http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/05/30/hewitt-firebug/
* iUI website - http://www.joehewitt.com/iui/
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