Degrading Script Tags (22)
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One thing has always annoyed me about the script tag. Script tags that reference external resources (via the src attribute) are no longer able to execute script embedded within the tag itself. It doesn't make sense to me that we're forced to write: <script src="some-lib.js"></script> <script> var foo = use_some_lib(); foo.do.stuff(); </script> when this is so much more elegant: <script src="some-lib.js"> var foo = use_some_lib(); foo.do.stuff(); </script> Only one tag - and the semantics would ...
TraceMonkey (66)
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I've been waiting to blog about this for a long time now. A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla's JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a techniques, called trace trees (PDF), which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey. A major goal of the project has been to set JavaScript up to compete with natively-compiled code, rather than simply against other interpreters. This means that we're starting to see speeds that are ...
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Sebastian Werner said:
Nice, but we still need to wait for IE to improve upon these new standards.
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Jason Cartwright said:
This, is awesome
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Daemach said:
Microsoft just can't keep up.
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Sean said:
Javascript as fast as C. Mmmmmm. (Well, maybe not THAT fast, but still cool.)
DQOA ou TOTZ (3)
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Attention, ce billet est une orgie YouTubesque. Il comporte 21 vidéos. Si ça vous gongfle, passez votre chemin. J’ai parlé l’autre jour de Sandra Kim. Comme vous l’adorez, je vous propose de la revoir un court instant dans ses moments de gloire, lorsqu’elle présentait l’émission “10 qu’on aime”…C’était à l’époque ou RTL-TVi copiait VTM et son concept “10 om te zien”. Les deux émissions sont aujourd’hui arrêtées, on ne sait pas trop si c’est à ...
306 - The Genetic Map of Europe (38)
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Genetically speaking, Finns and Italians are the most atypical Europeans. There is a large degree of overlap between other European ethnicities, but not up to the point where they would be indistinguishable from each other. Which means that forensic scientists now can use DNA to predict the region of origin of otherwise unknown persons (provided they are of European heritage). These are among the conclusions to be drawn from a genetic map of Europe, produced ...
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Soren said:
wow. that's really really really cool.
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Isaac said:
Unsurprisingly, the UK is also an outlier
Te Koop: Nikon D200 Body… (1)
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Nikon D200 body + Battery Pack + 2 battery + 2 memcards ..met een battery pack, twee batterijen en twee geheugenkaarten van 4 gigabyte! Perfecte staat: geen krassen of andere slijtage wegens nauwelijks gebruikt. Komt dat zien, komt dat zien :-) Ik heb dus de knoop doorgehakt: de Nikon D200 past voor geen centimeter bij hoe ik aan fotografie doe: sporadisch. Ik heb nu al die Canon G9 en misschien dat ik in de toekomst ...
Uni. Washington and Microsoft Research collaborates on (yet another) mindblowing 3D photo viewer (8)
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If you think you’ve seen what’s possible with Photosynth, then you’ve seen nothing yet. The collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research who only two years ago in 2006 published their paper “Photo Tourism” and their technology demonstration “Photosynth” have again pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved by intuitively processing the abundance of digital images shared on the web. This week at SIGGRAPH 2008 they’re sharing with the world ...
hackety org » Threaded XMLHttpRequest In Shoes (8)
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Threads can be tough and don’t suit beginners very well. And, well, Ruby threads can tie up the main app thread. So, Shoes steals the underpinnings of Ajax to give you asynchronous downloads without needing to get into threading. Many of the young Sneakers are building Twitter and Flickr apps; it seemed the morally upright thing to do. In addition, I was able to use these HTTP threads to load remote images in the background. ...
Podcast #2, SXSW, Ninja Articles (4)
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Open Web Podcast #2 The second edition of the Open Web Podcast is now live. In this episode we brought on Brendan Eich and Arun Ranganathan (both of Mozilla) to discuss the recent changes that occurred in the ECMAScript 3.1/ECMAScript 4 processes that resulted in ECMAScript Harmony. This is a dense podcast - going just over an hour. The podcast is available as an mp3, ogg, an RSS feed, and on iTunes. Next week we're ...
Filters in ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 (7)
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In Preview 2 or Preview 3 of ASP.NET (I forget which), we introduced the concept of Action Filters. Sounds much more exciting than your run-of-the-mill LayOnTheCouchMunchingChipsWatchingInfomercialsFilter, that I originally proposed to the team. Thankfully, that was rejected. An action filter is an attribute you can slap on an action method in order to run some code before and after the action method executes. Typically, an action filter represents a cross-cutting concern to your action method. ...
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There's a treasure trove of interesting stuff over at http://www.codepl.... It's a bunch of potential future stuff that the ASP.NET team is working on. That's where you can get builds of ASP.NET MVC, Dynamic Data Futures, and new AJAX stuff. Two days ago a new CodePlex release snuck up on the site. It's a potential new feature, so it could go nowhere, or we could make T-shirts and sing its praises. Could go either way. ...Shared by Alexandru Savu (36) Bill (1) Henning (12) IanBlackburn (41) Inferis (3) Jeffrey Vanneste (5) Johan (16) Jorriss (17) Justin (10) Keyvan Nayyei (0) Mark (11) Roberto (24) Samuel Kim (10) spoon16 (37) TiernanO (3)Contribute commentA Whole Lotta Nothing (49) permalink
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