Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting doings this week on the HTML5 video front. Brendan Eich of Mozilla has stated the organization will now provide native support for H.264. In Video, Mobile, and the Open Web (also cross-posted at his personal web site), Eich writes: What I do know for certain is this: H.264 is absolutely required right […]
Month: March 2012
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Suggests for a smart phone
I’m finally leaving my cave and buying a real, live smart phone. I left the Apple world over a year ago, so I’m looking at buying an Android phone. I want one that comes with Ice Cream Sandwich. Hopefully a phone that doesn’t get stuck with one version of an OS for years and years. […]
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Learning Node: Well, one Rails aside
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After denouncing the use of Ruby and Rails terms to describe Node and Node modules, I must now confess that I did use a Rails resource in the section on MVC in Chapter 6. The Rails Guide has an absolutely beautifully written overview on MVC and routing, Rails Routing from the […]
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Learning Node: Concepts and TOC
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Learning Node book is far enough along so that I can publish the Table of Contents for the book and it shouldn’t differ significantly from the TOC for the book when it’s finished. The chapters with an expanded TOC are those already finished—the rest are still in work. Before I print […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I only check in to the doings of the HTML WG at the W3C once a week. Most of my time is spent on my new book, Learning Node. Frankly, Node has been a refreshing change from the smoky labyrinth which is the HTML5 spec process. I’d check in with the Working […]