Monthly Archives: November 2010

Seneca’s Open Source Approach in Globe and Mail

By david.humphrey | Published: November 29, 2010
Evan emailed me tonight to point out that former Seneca BSD graduate, Lukas Blakk, was interviewed in the Globe and Mail.  The article looks at ways various colleges in Ontario are helping to prepare their students for high-tech jobs.  Seneca’s deep commitment to real-world, open source projects like Firefox, Fedora, and others is highlighted: Ms. Blakk [...]
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“You can bump into anybody on Twitter.”

By david.humphrey | Published: November 25, 2010
Author William Gibson, from a recent New York Magazine interview, talking about Twitter (I also love Twitter, and follow Gibson…he uses it *a lot*): You’ve taken to Twitter (GreatDismal). I have indeed. I’ve taken to Twitter like a duck to water. Its simplicity allows the user to customize the experience with relatively little input from [...]
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“As many of you know, one of my hobbies is catching cheaters”

By david.humphrey | Published: November 22, 2010
There’s a few posts making their way around the web relating to students cheating.  The first is a fantastic account by a guy who writes papers professional for students.  I mailed it to a few academic friends when I first read it.  I only needed one word to explain it: fantastic. I’ve written toward a master’s [...]
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Processing.js 1.0 Released

By david.humphrey | Published: November 18, 2010
I’m pleased and excited to announce that we just released Processing.js 1.0, and with it, a major update to the http://processingjs.org web site.  I wrote recently about the work to get here, so I won’t do it again now. I will take a minute to say that Processing.js is a fantastic tool for Processing and Web [...]
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Beavers in the corn

By david.humphrey | Published: November 14, 2010
My father-in-law showed me his bird feeders the other day.  Both were metal, of good quality, and bent so they were laying flat on the ground.  Neither of us had seen this before.  “What could do that?” he asked.  We’ve both seen squirrels, chipmunks, deer, lots of raccoons; but never have either of us seen [...]
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Iterating over Objects in JavaScript Quickly

By david.humphrey | Published: November 11, 2010
I’ve been working with a bunch of people to help them get their code to trace (i.e, go really fast in Firefox), and one of the common anti-patterns I see, especially with people writing WebGL code, where they have to keep track of large numbers of objects in a scene, is the use of for…in [...]
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Tending the Fire

By david.humphrey | Published: November 10, 2010
There are different modes of being, and one of them is the being of one tending the fire.  The fire wants to go out.  It tends toward its own end.  The fire wants to be fed.  I can light the fire, but in so doing I take on the responsibility of its existence.  Tending the [...]
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Filed under “Cuisine : American”

By david.humphrey | Published: November 9, 2010
The Internet is the wild west of intellectual discussion, and usually I’d tell you to avoid the comments like the plague.  However, sometimes the Internet gets it right.  Tonight is that night.  Read this “recipe,” and in particular the comments: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/late-night-bacon-recipe/reviews/index.html Thank-you Internet.  Thank-you Food Network, never change, OK? I’m re-filing this under LOLWTFBBQ.
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Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: Open Video Lab

By david.humphrey | Published: November 8, 2010
Last week I was in Barcelona, Spain for the Mozilla Foundation’s Drumbeat Festival.  The festival’s theme was Learning, Freedom, and the Web, and attendees came to participate in sessions and workshops on a variety of education, open source, and open web topics.  Together with Mozilla’s Brett Gaylor, I ran the Open Video Lab. Our goals for [...]
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