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Paul Irish
Born (1982-07-23) July 23, 1982 (age 41)
NationalityAmerican
EducationWorcester Polytechnic Institute (BS)
OccupationDeveloper Relations
EmployerGoogle
Notable workjQuery, Modernizr, Yeoman, HTML5 Boilerplate
Websitepaulirish.com

Paul Irish is an American front-end engineer and a developer advocate for the Google Chrome web browser. He is an evangelist in web technologies, including JavaScript and CSS.[1][2][3][4][dubious – discuss] In 2011, he was named Developer of the Year by The Net Awards for his contributions to the web development landscape and his participation in many popular open source projects.[5]

Front-end development

Irish has created, contributed to, or led the development of many front-end web development projects and JavaScript libraries:[6]

HTML5 evangelism

Irish has created or was a key contributor to many websites in an effort to encourage browser and web developers to move to HTML5:[7]

References

  1. ^ "Discover | Adobe Creative Cloud". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  2. ^ "Developer Interview: Paul Irish". 28 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Paul Irish on awesomeness". 28 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Paul Irish The HTML5 Hero" (PDF). Appliness. Adobe (5): 69–79. August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF; 105MB) on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  5. ^ ".net Awards 2011: The winners!". 24 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Interview with Paul Irish". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  7. ^ "Paul Irish on awesomeness". Creative Bloq. 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2019-06-18.

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