Thanks to Flashblock I don't waste a lot of time loading pointless Flash animations in my browser. The few times I do enable Flash it's usually to watch video. With HTML5, though, this too will not be necessary because HTML5 includes a video tag. Rejoice! Adobe, probably not so pleased.
You can see demos of this if you have recent browsers (Firefox 3.5, WebKit, Chrome etc. not IE) from DailyMotion and YouTube.
Paul Graham writes on the Maker/Manager Schedule differences. It's a good read and very true from my experience. At the start of my professional career I was a Research Scientist (Maker) eventually I was "promoted" to Department Head (Manager). I left the corporate world in 2004 and now write code more or less full time (Maker). Guess which I prefer.
So the Shanghai weather played overcast as usual and we couldn't actually see the sun get eclipsed. Walking to work, the light was getting dim - like when heavy rain clouds gather - I kept looking up expecting rain. In the office lobby people were gathered around the TV watching feeds of the sun slowly disappearing. The picture above is the view from our office window taken around 9:38AM. Then it started to rain. Normal programming will now be resumed.
Back in the day (OK, the 90s) there was a thing called VMRL. Great things were predicted for 3D content on the web. Meetings were held at SIGGRAPH. Consortiums were formed. Consumers said "Meh!".
Now 3D in a browser is back... and twice! First, the latest WebKit supports CSS 3D transforms. Download the latest WebKit here and see the very cool demos of CSS 3D here. Second (though released earlier), Google has released O3D - a plugin which provides a 3D API to JavaScript - demos here.
