Talk Details

Programming the Mozilla Platform

Name Gopalarathnam Venkatesan

Organisation Yahoo! Inc

Website http://360.yahoo.com/gopalarathnam_v

Scope Technical

Topic Cross platform applications

Type talk

Abstract The Mozilla Platform is a large software development tool that is a modern blend of XML document processing, scripting languages, and software objects. It is used to create interactive, user-focused applications. The Mozilla Platform encourages the rapid application development because programmers base their applications-to-be on a powerful development tool that contains much pre-existing functionality.

This talk also covers building Mozilla.

Pre-requisites Knowledge of XML, CSS, JavaScript.

Profile He is currently working as a senior web developer at Yahoo! Bangalore. He is proficient in languages like C, PHP and web technologies.

He is an active free software evangelist and has himself written couple of Mozilla extensions (not open source-for his previous company Sify Ltd).