One of the greatest strengths of Mac OS X, for developers in particular, is that it has a very elegant and consistent graphical user interface as well as an excellent command line interface. I’m not going to cover the basics like “ls” and “cd”, but rather point out some Mac OS X specific tools that [...]
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of work in Rhino, Mozilla’s JavaScript interpreter written in Java. While it’s a bit slower than some of the other JavaScript interpreters out there it has the advantage of being able to call Java libraries. This is immensely useful since JavaScript is pretty bare-bones in terms of built-in libraries.
Anyway, [...]
Radiohead’s latest music video, “House of Cards”, was shot using LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) rather than cameras:
Learn more about how it was made at the Google Code Radiohead page. The coolest part is that Radiohead is making the data available to anyone who wants to play with it.
They provide some sample Processing code to [...]
Now that iPhone 2.0 is out I started playing around with some of the new web features, and soon found that I had created the prototypical virtual light table that’s an essential demo for any new multitouch technology.
It’s about 100 lines of JavaScript. It grabs the 10 latest photos from Flickr’s “interesting photos” API and [...]