If you've been reading this blog at all, you know how geeked I am about vector graphics. SVG seems to be a promising technology that will open the web and desktop to vector graphics for everyone, while Flash is a technology that has been ubiquitous for almost a decade. Well, it looks like the Khronos Group is getting serious about hardware-accelerated vector graphics support. The OpenVG 1.0 specifications were released last month. Read the rest of this entry ...
Since I spent the last 6 months or so getting geeked about web development, SVG, JavaScript, Ajax and XML. I think it's about time I shift my focus back for a little while on some standard C++ game development for the desktop. I find that my mind naturally migrates every so often (usually 6 months) between interests/hobbies that I have. It's like my brain is saying that it needs a breather from obsessing about one thing so it's time to obsess on another. Mild OCD anyone? Read the rest of this entry ...
Our library kicks ass. It's about 3 blocks away so it's often a place to take the boys and let them blow off steam looking at puzzles, playing with puppets or picking out books. We've even picked out some DVDs for them (mostly discs in the Baby Einstein series: Baby Mozart
Via mozillaZine. It appears that Firefox 1.5 will include support for a series of new JavaScript functions dealing with arrays. These extensions are outside of the Ecma-262 language specification that formally describes JavaScript. Read the rest of this entry ...