An interesting article in Technology Review by Nicholas Negroponte, titled “Creating a culture of Ideas”. The article focuses on the difficulties of developing a culture needed to make this technological ideas possible ::: www.technologyreview.com/articles/negroponte0203.asp. This article was mentioned in the February 2003 article titled “10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World” ::: www.technologyreview.com/articles/emerging0203.asp
Young women are drinking more
Young women are drinking more and some are flirting more aggressively than ever before according to the Sydney Morning Herald :::
www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/07/1041566409557.html
Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002
Jakob Nielsen’s comments on 2002 new mistakes in web-design. The worst mistakes related to poor email integration. The number one mistake, however, was lack of pricing information, followed by overly literal search engines. ::: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html
The Microsoft MSDN Library section
The Microsoft MSDN Library section on Audio and Video ::: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid=28000411
Windows Media Player 9 Series launches soon
The latest version of the Windows Media Player 9 Series launches on the 7th of Jan 2003 ::: www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series
Twenty DONT'S for ASP Developers
A useful article by Mark Burnett on twenty DONT’S for ASP Developers ::: http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1603
A useful reference for creating an XML file
A quick and useful reference for XML file creations. It contains some guidelines and tips when writing xml documents
www.xml.htmlteacher.com/xml/creationguidelines.shtml
Robert Penners easing functions
An example of Robert Penners easing functions for Flash MX. These equations are useful for slowing or accelerating objects using ActionScript.
They are an taken from Robert’s “Programming Macromedia Flash MX” book.
www.robertpenner.com/scripts/easing_equations.txt
Update: Additional code samples have been added for
JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, SCSS, LESS, ActionScript 1.0 to 3.0, CoffeeScript, Java, Lua, C#, C++ and C
FontLister for easy management of fonts
Happy New Year!!
I came across this really useful tool for displaying font faces without installing them. It is great for anyone who needs to manage fonts. The software is called, FontLister and is available as a freeware and shareware editions ::: http://www.theill.com/fl/default.asp
Mark Pilgrim on RSS in O'Reillys XML.com
Another interesting article by Mark Pilgrim on RSS in Oreillys XML.com ::: www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html
Porting Windows Win32 API Applications to OS X
An interesting article by Apple on porting Windows Win32 API Applications to Mac OS X ::: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/win32porting
Advertising, techniques, skill sets & resources
A useful resource guide by the Advertising Association of the UK on better ways of finding a job in Advertising, techniques and skill sets required. ::: www.adassoc.org.uk/gial/intro.html
Merry Christmas!!
Hayao Miyazaki’s – Spirited Away
I went and saw the animated film by Miyazaki titled “Spirited Away” last night with Jarek and Pete. This film is truly amazing and has been labeled the best animated film of the year.
The film is titled “Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi” in Japanese.
http://www.ghibli.jp/works/chihiro
More at this IMDB page
Digital image of 1000 bits stored in atom
A digital image made up of 1000 bits has been able to be stored in the atoms of a polymer molecule.
www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp
Bing Fung and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma found that the 19 hydrogen atoms in a lone liquid crystal molecule can store at least 1024 bits of information. The data are stored in the complex interaction of the protons’ magnetic moments.New Scientist - 1 Dec 2002
Journal reference: Journal of Chemical Physics (vol, 117 p 6903)
Corto Maltese – La Cour Secrete Des Arcanes
The website of the film trailer I saw when I was in Paris earlier in the year.
Corto Maltese – La Cour Secrete Des Arcanes is an animated film which uses the vector based 3D shader plug-in by David Gould called Illustrate