Beijing 2008 - It's a wrap (96)
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The Big Picture (1658)
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Over the past couple of weeks, in Beijing, China, over 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries participated in 302 events in 28 sports. below are some highlights of the last week in Beijing, and a few shots of the Closing Ceremony last night in the National Stadium. (39 photos total)Left-to-right: Netherlands Antilles' Churandy Martina, Zimbabwe's Brian Dzingai, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, Wallace Spearmon of the US and Britain's Christian Malcolm compete in the men's 200m ...
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Justin Walters said:
most definitely.
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Jean-Baptiste said:
Je kiffe ce blog; La tof du plongeur chinois est vraiment énorme.
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Razzu said:
notice anything racist ?
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zar said:
Questi di The Big Picture fanno sempre delle foto spettacolari.
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Shane Keener said:
Great imagery with wonderful stories always comes out of the Olympics. Sometimes, I think the pictures are more impressive than the video.
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bucks14 said:
the link has a tons more great shots...
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Ian D said:
Great pictures that wrap up the Olympics nicely.
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rsgalloway said:
http://speechable.com/pic/96201gy2.png
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Jake said:
Because giant sports photos are awesome.
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Praneet said:
Fantastic set of pictures
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Pradeep said:
Most awaited.[I liked the ones of Lolo Jones and Bryan Clay. And of course, Vijay's]
Amazing shots of Women's Olympic Fencing (PICS) (23)
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Spectators at the fencing competition at the Olympics are often treated to some dramatic, emotional scenes - played out by passionate competitors dressed all in white, hi-tech gear, meeting inside a large darkened stadium. It also makes for some dramatic imagery, which I'll share with you here -- 16 scenes from recent women's fencing matches in Beijing. (16 photos total)China's Zhang Lei reacts to losing the Women's individual Foil round of 16 match to Italy's ...
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DigDoug said:
Click through this. Trust me. WOW.
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Ben said:
Simply stunning imagery. I want to be able to take pictures and fence like that.
ECMAScript Harmony (11)
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There's been some turmoil in the world of ECMAScript. While many are - even, at least, vaguely - familiar with the development of ECMAScript 4 the devil is in the details. I've blogged about ES4 extensively in the past - and even did a speaking tour last fall educating developers about its details and implementations, however, a lot has happened since that time. The ECMAScript 4 specification development was very ad-hoc in nature (primarily tackled ...
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Dexter.Yy said:
Brendan Eich (August 14, 2008 at 2:50 pm)@Question: Mozilla will continue to evolve JS toward JS2, which may even correspond to a 4th Edition. ES4 is a bit of a scare-word for some, and definitely overloaded or ambiguous, so we're using the ES-Harmony name for now. Whatever the Edition number and the future standards that emerge, we'll keep advancing JS in Mozilla's platform.Harmony means everyone on the committee is on the hook to work on not only 3.1, but a major successor (major meaning new syntax at least, probably stuff from JS1.7/1.8). In the best case this means vendors will compete to show prompt and faithful implementations of finished standards, as well as previews for testing draft-spec features.John Resig (August 13, 2008 at 8:09 pm)@David Brewer: That's definitely not clear. ActionScript 3 is based on a very different ECMAScript 4 draft, though - one from 1999. The current ECMAScript 4 work is an extension of that (supported by Adobe) and would've become ActionScript 4. However, the new ECMAScript 3.1 and Harmony proposals are not compatible with ActionScript 3/4, at all. The committee acknowledges this and it's unclear as to what will happen because of it.Dan Smith (August 14, 2008 at 6:51 pm)Brendan's comment pretty much nails where we're headed with ActionScript -- it's too early to know what will be in Harmony, but Adobe will track the specifications and likely implement what doesn't conflict. But no promises until we know what's coming. And we'll absolutely not be pulling classes, packages, etc out of ActionScript.@Question: Harmony doesn't change our working relationship on Tamarin at all. Tamarin can support multiple language variants -- it was already going to support SpiderMonkey(JavaScript) and Flash Player (ActionScript).
border-image in Firefox (35)
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For the upcoming Firefox 3.1 release a lot of work has been going into improving its CSS support (specifically, in relation to the CSS 3 specification). One areas that have received solid implementations is that of border-image. This is a new CSS 3 module that makes the exact slicing of images (and their positioning around an element) quite easy. The most obvious use case for them exists in constructing beautiful scalable buttons. And there is, ...
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Adam said:
iUI looks tight
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Jonny M said:
Ohhhhh, this looks cool!
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Joe Maller said:
I have a post half-written about this, I really need to finish it...
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Ralph said:
this will be cool.
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Mijia said:
moz-border-image 在nightly build里面才好使，怪不得
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Allan Haggett said:
Via Jonny.
Bats! (2)
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Douglas Crockford's The Department of Style (35)
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In 1980 I was working at Basic/Four Corporation. Someone I was working with had seen a game at a conference in which a player is chased around a field of electrified fences by deadly vampire bats. From that description I wrote a bats game in Business Basic. I have never seen the original game, so I don't know how my version compares. I am now testing the ADsafe platform. The first widget is the Bats ...
Book review: “JavaScript: The Good Parts” by Crockford (24)
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I heart David Flanagan. I’m making my way through “The Ruby Programming Language” this summer. Its exhaustiveness really satisfies. But a decade ago, my programming Bible was Flanagan’s “JavaScript: The Definitive Guide”. As I transitioned from a career in content to a career in code, “the Rhino book” taught me everything I needed to know about object-oriented JavaScript, DOM scripting and the other building blocks of today’s Ajax landscape. I’ve bought a hard copy of ...
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Dom Derrien said:
The Rhino book is still a must-read for any developer new to JavaScript, at least the first two chapters. It's not just a matter of understanding the JavaScript language, it's also about using it in the browser context (to manipulate the DOM).
JavaScript Micro-Templating (33)
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I've had a little utility that I've been kicking around for some time now that I've found to be quite useful in my JavaScript application-building endeavors. It's a super-simple templating function that is fast, caches quickly, and is easy to use. I have a couple tricks that I use to make it real fun to mess with. Here's the source code to the templating function (a more-refined version of this code will be in my ...
