Joe Hewitt (programmer)

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 and DOM Inspector.

His first project took place while still attending Hopatcong High School. He created the website Feff World with Douglas Palermo.

From 2000-2003, he worked on UI programming at Netscape. Subsequently, he worked on AOL's Boxely UI project, which renders software such as AIM Triton and AOL Explorer.

Recently, he has been working on Parakey with Blake 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 by Facebook 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's iPhone.

In August 2007, he wrote the iPhone-specific version of Facebook. [ [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.html

External 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 with Douglas 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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