Just like last year, December 1st is supposed to be Chicago's first snowstorm. So I've turned on the snow in my blog header. Now you can keep warm by hovering around your CPU.
I was looking at the comments from last year's entry and it's good to see that we've now seen definite progress from Safari's side on the whole SVG front. Still no word from IE though 🙁
I recently got ahold of a nice MacBook Pro and I'm using it as my primary Windows box at work. It's nice and snappy and I like it, but I'm having trouble getting used to the keyboard, let alone the one-button mousepad. I thought I'd use this post to collapse several google searches into one location. I'll likely add to this list as I learn more tricks. Read the rest of this entry ...
Inspired by Rob, I decided I'd take a crack at embedding Lua scripting in a couple C++ projects that I'm working on. Rob has gone the ultimate route of using SWIG, but when I was starting to do some research, I stumbled upon Luabridge, a library that attempts to do all the interface binding using C++ templates. This sounds like more fun to me - even if I can't later use it for Scheme scripts or whatever in the future. Read the rest of this entry ...
As per these requests I made a screencast of running the SVG video demos on Opera 9.5. My apologies for the crappy video - it's only my second attempt. Also, I should stress that the framerate of the video on Opera is perfect (any jitteriness is the screencast's fault, not Opera's).