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Archive for June, 2009

chnorm 0.3 released

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

You can fetch it while it's hot.

I've fixed the output of the --help option which crashed due to "invalid" characters in my accentuated name.  Thanks for Tamás for letting me know about this bug!

The Earth from Above

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I incredibly respect Yann Arthus-Bertrand because of his work to present the beauty of our planet and stand up for making the situation better regarding its most serious problems, such as climate change.  I've first seen The Earth from Above series on Spectrum TV.

It looks like there is a Google Earth layer on his work and GoodPlanet.org is a central place to raise public attention on the important issues and offer solutions.

Flash is loosing ground

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Watching the word of DHTML it seems to me that Flash is becoming more and more obsoleted as alternative standards and their implementations begin to emerge.  I've seen some major projects in the near past that strengthened this belief in me.

  • Glimmer has the potential to replace Flash animations.
  • SoundManager 2 makes it easier to play sounds using JavaScript.
  • Processing.js is the JavaScript port of the Processing language.

Huge props to Péter for mentioning SoundManager 2.  It's a really interesting component for us because we were on the same path regarding the Flash music player of Wondeer.  We strive to push the application logic of our player from the ActionScript side to the JavaScript side for better maintainability.  SoundManager 2 is exactly what we're looking for so it's really exciting for us to see this project.

Both of the above mentioned JavaScript components became possible because 1) the Canvas has matured, 2) JavaScript engines have matured and 3) CPUs got faster.

It's exciting to imagine the possibilities when HTML5 will be supported by all major browsers and when JavaScript will be compiled everywhere.