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 DOM Inspector (DOMi) is a web developer tool created by Joe Hewitt and was originally included in Mozilla Application Suite as well as versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to Firefox 3. It is now included in Firefox, and SeaMonkey. Its main purpos ...

Education

His first project took place while still attending Hopatcong High School.

Career

Hewizz created the website Feff World with

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. From 2000 to 2003, he worked on UI programming at

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. Subsequently, he worked on AOL's Boxely UI project, which renders software such as

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and AOL Explorer. In July 2007, Hewitt led the release of the

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user interface library which greatly simplified

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development for Apple's iPhone. He has been working on Parakey with Blake Ross. Parakey was acquired by

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in July 2007. In August 2007, he wrote the iPhone-specific version of

. He was responsible for creating Facebook’s iPhone app, which as of 2009 was the most downloaded iPhone app of all time. In November 2009, Hewitt ceased development on the application, citing Apple policies. In January 2009, he released the open-source library for iPhone developers Three20. In 2011, Hewitt left

References

External links

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Interview with Joe Hewitt
Living people 1978 births People from Hopatcong, New Jersey American computer programmers Engineers from New Jersey Facebook employees {{US-engineer-stub