Monthly Archives: March 2010

Rihanna covers René

By david.humphrey | Published: March 30, 2010
Walking into my office today, I passed a student waiting at the front door of our building, listening to his cell phone as though it were a stereo.  The song that met me as I moved through the breezeway was Rihanna’s Rude Boy.  One line in the chorus caught my attention, and I reflected on [...]
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Watching the open web play with Processing.js

By david.humphrey | Published: March 29, 2010
As we get closer to finishing Processing.js, it’s awesome to watch people doing new things with it.  Building a technology on the open web means new ways of interaction and deployment suddenly become possible.  Take, for example, Robert O’Rourke’s newly released PJSBox bookmarklet, which allows arbitrary processing code on a web page to be highlighted [...]
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Processing.js 0.7, plus ref tests with canvas

By david.humphrey | Published: March 24, 2010
Today we finished final testing for Processing.js 0.7 and released it for download.  It represents a lot of hard work by an ever growing community of developers.  This release once again focuses on feature parity with Processing, as well as bug fixes.  We’ve added some big new features, like PImage and image loading, as well [...]
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Understanding the cost of arrays with canvas

By david.humphrey | Published: March 22, 2010
Yesterday, Daniel and I spent a bunch of time optimizing his patch to add PImage to processing.js.  One of the many things it allows you to do is operate on the pixels of an image “off screen,” then draw all or some of the resulting image.  To implement this on top of canvas we have [...]
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On the need for an around which

By david.humphrey | Published: March 14, 2010
I’m sick, and have been for more than a week, so this isn’t going to be as well written as I would like.  And yet, I’ve not been able to get a thought out of my mind for the past few days, so I’m going to begin to work with it, and hope that it [...]
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Walking through Arrivals at YYZ

By david.humphrey | Published: March 9, 2010
Through the baggage claim doors, passing a security guard in a swivel chair typing on her phone, a crowd waits on the other side of the glass and railing: “Welcome home Dad!”; “Mr. Peter Yanovik”; “Congratulations Denise”; A large red banner filled with gold Chinese script is held up by a smiling family, the elderly patriarch standing off to [...]
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A bird in the hand and two in the field

By david.humphrey | Published: March 8, 2010
I’ve written before about the prevalence of Snow Buntings in our area.  It turns out I didn’t know the half of it.  My wife recently connected with a neighbour who bands them.  Each morning during the winter, whatever the weather, he goes out to a road a few over from ours, and parks his trunk [...]
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