Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Killdeer Nest

By david.humphrey | Published: May 19, 2011
I’ve written about Killdeers at least once before, and because they are a regular part of our property, it seems fitting that they should return to my blog.  This spring, like every spring we’ve been here, there have been Killdeers nesting on our lane.  They love it because their eggs blend perfectly with the stones [...]
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Popcorn.js and Khan Academy

By david.humphrey | Published: May 3, 2011
Last week Mozilla’s Bobby Richter and I spent some time building a demo of what’s possible with Popcorn.js’s new YouTube support.  Steven Weerdenburg has been working with me at Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology over the winter, and among other projects, he wrote a bunch of player plugins.  In Popcorn.js, a player plugin [...]
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Spring means welcoming new CDOT researchers

By david.humphrey | Published: May 2, 2011
It’s election day here in Canada, and I spent the day participating in an orientation for 20 new full time researchers at Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT).  I do all my work out of CDOT, so just about anything you read that we’re working on, from Processing.js to Popcorn.js to Audio work–it’s [...]
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