Announcements from Google I/O
Today had my head spinning as many announcements have been flying out of Google’s big developer conference, I/O. For me, the biggest is news that Google is not only opening up the VP-8 codec they...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Go in Use at Google, Another Facebook Privacy Gaffe, New...
Google dogfooding Go for some of its services The Register has the details uncovered at Google I/O. While no one from Google would say what services, exactly, were built or re-built in the new...
View ArticleMozilla Shares Its Take on a Rich Browser Database
In a post on Mozilla’s hacks blog, Arun Rangatharan and Shawn Wilsher give a clear and compelling walkthrough of IndexedDB, a feature coming in Firefox 4. IndexedDB is their answer to the need for more...
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TCLP 2010-06-13 News
This is news cast 216, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, an update on the badge experiment. This week’s security alerts are diffusing botnet control makes them more robust and bad...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Vulcans vs. Apes, Study on the Economics of Copyright,...
Vulcans vs. Apes This is a continuation of the thought process by Jonathan Ellis I discussed in the last news cast. The model he describes to identify the two distinct classes of programmers is a...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Speeding an Algorithm through Intuition and...
An example of empiricism trumping theory Slashdot linked to an article on ACM queue explaining how an in the trenches developer was able to prove a hunch that the potential performance of a well known...
View ArticleEmerging Languages Camp
The more programming languages I learn, the more enjoyable I find learning and reading about them. In that vein, Mac Slocum at O’Reilly Radar provides me another reason for regretting being unable to...
View ArticleLightweight Guide to Using HTML5
Once I actually started having to read about HTML, as opposed to reverse engineering it with view source, I pretty much jumped straight to reading the actual specifications. I’ve been hacking on HTML...
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TCLP 2010-07-18 News
This is news cast 219, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, an admission of a mistake around correctly observing the licenses of some works I used after I stopped using the...
View ArticleRemix This Game Contest
David O’Toole has launched a project, almost a challenge you might say, to take his game, XONG, and do something creative or clever with it. I found this via Slashdot but the project page is well worth...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Data Sorting World Record, Reining In DMCA Takedowns,...
Data sorting record: 1TB, 1 minute HT [si]dragon. Latest in Perfect 10 case rejects sloppy takedown notices As the EFF explains, this is a small victory in shifting the burden back onto those issuing...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Verizon Changes Users Passwords without Permissions,...
Verizon changing users’ router passwords As the Slashdot post explains, the customer who shared their experience having their router password changed is clear that Verizon said this was for security...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Consumer Friendly ISP Caught Using DPI, P != NP Possibly...
I was traveling today so apologies for the lateness of the links and the utter lack of commentary. I’ll be at a tech event all day tomorrow so not sure that I will be able to manage better until after...
View ArticlejQuery Mobile Project
jQuery is one of the most popular of a class of libraries originally intended to ease the pain of working with JavaScript as implemented by a variety of web browsers. I’ve used jQuery for a couple of...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Pacman on a Voting Machine, PS3 Jailbroken, the Sound of...
Researchers re-program voting machine to play Pacman PS3 hacked bis USB dongle The sound of sorting algorithms Rob at Boing Boing shares some videos that show what sorting algorithms would sound like....
View ArticleCodeSounding, Sonification of Source Code Structure
So much for only posting some links tonight. I saw this project via Hacker News, which reminded me of two other recent stories. One I shared a while back was video of sonification of various sorting...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Digital Census in Brazil, Ads that Stalk Surfers,...
Brazil undertaking all digital census, using smartphones, Slashdot Contribute to SETI@home from your browser Via Hacker News. Re-targeting ads stalk surfers for weeks after they shop Slashdot links to...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Mozilla Cloud Editor Renamed, Google to Simplify Privacy...
I am still on the road, returning from Dragon*Con in Atlanta. There four more hours between me and DC, which will be tackled tomorrow, bright and early. My blogging should return to normal either...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > D in Gnu’s Debugger, Police Raids Hit Wikileaks and...
I am back from Dragon*Con but thoroughly wiped out. It looks like I will return to my usual blogging routine tomorrow. For now, here are some more links. Gnu debugger adds D language support, The H...
View ArticleMozilla Releases JavaScript Engine Aimed at Research
As The Register explains, this JavaScript engine isn’t aimed at use but rather to make the process of researching the future of the language more inclusive. From Mozilla Labs Tom Austin: “In...
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