Videos

May 4 2007

Douglas Crockford: The JavaScript Programming Language

This video is an outstanding presentation on the history, the language itself, advanced features, available platforms, the state of the standards, and programming styles of JavaScript. It’s presented by the Douglas Crockford. He is the Yahoo! JavaScript Architect.

The video is good for people learning JavaScript and also for experienced developers who would like a greater insight in this language.

What’s interesting here is that Crawford claims that JavaScript is one of the most misunderstood languages and that all books on it are bad, except for one that he recommends that is the “least bad” of the JavaScript books.

The presentation is in 4 parts and lasts about 2 hours.

Part 1 (30:58)

Part 2 (29:08)

Part 3 (19:47)

Part 4 (31:08)

By Johan • Programming, Videos • 0

Feb 26 2007

Bugatti Veyron at 407 Km/h

If you never heard of a Bugatti Veyron, you need to see this video. The car costs about $1.6 million and can drive up to 407 Km/h. You can get one of these things by writing a good web browser.

 

By Johan • Videos • 0

Jan 27 2007

Building a Better Desktop

We’re all familiar with the desktop on our computer. This is the screen we wind up at after the computer finishes booting and logs us in. The desktop uses metaphors to mimic a real world desktop like drag and drop, folders to store programs and data files, and a trash or recycle bin for placing objects for later deletion. While these metaphors sound good, the desktop doesn’t really behave like a real desktop on a table should.

This is where BumpTop really shines. This is a new desktop being developed by the Dyanamic Graphics Project at the University of Toronto. It uses physics models to sort and arrange items on a desktop.

People arrange documents on their real world desktop to show the importance of the document to the owner. For example, when we pile letters (envelopes) on each other, we may arrange one of the more important letters in a way that sticks out from the pile which would get our attention better. BumpTop uses many familiar metaphors like this and others for arranging and sorting documents. Take a look at the following video and see the desktop that may be on your computer someday.

&nbpsp;

By Johan • Applications, Videos • 0

Dec 13 2006

Bill Gates and the Computer Man

I found a couple of videos on the Macintosh. The first is a young Bill Gates praising the Mac, followed by a very funny commercial. I don’t know who made this ad, but its one of the best ads made for Macs.

I have to note that I’m not a Mac user and I’m a great supporter of Microsoft products. :)

By Johan • Videos • 0

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