I ran into Processing at BarCamp earlier this year. It was quite an interesting concept. Slashdot has news of a javascript version of this system. This is mainly cool because it makes it that much easier to have a play around with Processing. Yay the good old days of demo writing.
Archive for May, 2008
Mysql backup extensions are open source again
As linked to all over the web, Kaj Arnö has posted a blog post explaining that the Enterprise-only backup extensions that I previously covered on this blog are now to also be available in MySQL Community. This essentailly means that the encryption and compression backup extensions be available to the open source world.
Tags: database, open source, software
Cross Platform Standalone Silverlight
Miguel posts an interesting blog on cross platform stand alone silverlight. As Miguel points out there was already a way to do this with Moonlight on linux, but not on windows.
Using a Windows.Forms.WebControl to embed a sliverlight control is trivial approach to doing this. But Tamir has gone to the effort of wiring it all up for you now which is great. His approach also runs a HttpListener in a separate thread to enable the silverlight control to dispatch requests back and forth.
Tags: .net, silverlight, software
Webkit GTK (and QT) get plugin support
Another gem from planet gnome. WebKit GTK and QT are finally getting pluggin support (follow the link for screenshot bling). WebKit is fast becoming the little browser engine that could. I’m looking forward to seeing the GTK and QT pushes bring on an age that gets us native Win32 WebKit. I can think of tonnes of projects where I needed a light weight, easy to embed browser engine and instead resort to IE shell hacks.
Tags: browsers, open source, software
Open source use of flash spec is now ok
According to this blog from planet gnome, open source projects are now able to use the flash spec to create their own SWF and FLV decoders. This is good news both for the open source projects that try to bring flash to linux and its ilk and for Adobe since there is no better way to put a spec to test than to have multiple implementations against it.
Tags: flash, open source, software