Very interesting video clips… old but good 🙂
OLPC (or in english – One Laptop per Child)
Each time I see/hear Nicholas Negroponte or see OLPC project in action (last episode of Entourage) – I feel existed about this amazing project.
Here are few things that you (yes – you!) as a developer can do in order to help this great effort:
- Buy one. Ahh… buy at least 2 – so you could give one for a child and save her life and the other so you could develop software and test it for real.
- Become a translator – OLPC currently deploys in 19 local languages, and the OLPC translation community is working on over 90 more.
- Provide support – Sometimes kids and adults need a little extra help with their laptop. They want to know how to install a new program, or fix a problem. We have a very dedicated team of volunteers that assist users with problems. Not much technical experience is necessary.
- Develop software – New games and programs are always needed. If you would like to help develop software for the XO, see the Developer’s Resources.
Here is a very good/short video that explain the mission.
Introduction to HTML 5
Good stuff:
Introduction to HTML 5
Are you interested in HTML 5 and what’s coming down the pipeline but haven’t had time to read any articles yet? I’ve put put together an educational Introduction to HTML 5 video that goes over many of the major aspects of the new standard, including:
- Web vector graphics with the Canvas tag and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- The Geolocation API
- HTML 5 Video
- The HTML 5 Database and Application Cache
- Web workers
In the video I also crack open the HTML 5 YouTube Video prototype to show you some of the new HTML 5 tags, such as nav, article, etc. It’s chock full of demos and sample source code.
Introduction to HTML 5 from Brad Neuberg on Vimeo.
DCI is the future of MVC
Check out this excellent talk on DCI from the chief architect of NetBean. What is DCI you asking? Well, It is Data/Context/Interactions – a modernized version of MVC. It was originally described at artima article. However, I find it interesting to learn and use it in your next project.
Most startups fail…
Here is a short, good presentation that if you are part of a new company (=start up) – you might want to go over it:
Shana Tova!
Off road trip to Utah!
Zion Park, Bryce Park, Kodachrome and the Burr Trail to Lake powell.
jQuery 1.3.3 (almost 1.4) – main improvments
These guys are just doing it RIGHT…
Here is a short (relatively) presentation that give you the highlights from the jQuery Conf. that took place in Boston last weekend.
I personally like the new separation that we now see in the core.js and of course the new selector engine (Sizzle). As we all know – faster === happy users.
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As for more generic topic of Java Script Testing – here is a very good intro:
I’m strong believer in test driven development and the option to do it with better methodology and tools is most welcome.
KISS (=Keep it simple stupid)
Why less is more? and why you want to keep it simple… a very good (and long) presentation on ‘simple’ design and why it is so important.
The Chief CTO (Mr. Chopra) And What He Think
He is America’s first ever appointed CTO, Aneesh Paul Chopra.
What the ‘chief’ CTO of the USA has to say on this role, focus and life:
Few points I’ve took:
- “… If Google, Microsoft and other can use the cloud – why the government can NOT do so?”
- “…I’ve try to search information in our government site… I could find nothing. Then Google came with their enterprise search solutions…”
It would be interesting to see how much gov2.0 he could push forward and open.
Ido Green 