As many Flash Developers have heard, ECMAScript 4 has died. I’m not going to go into the details of the decision, although you can most likely blame Microsoft and their 80% browser stronghold on the web. Nevertheless, the decision has raised significant issues around the web regarding web standards, and whether or not they have [...]
Firefox 3 Fixes Bug
The keyboard bug with RC1 has been fixed for latest build (RC2)! Phew!
Firefox 3 Release: World Record? What world record?
The Mozilla team has announced that they are attempting to set a (Guinness Book) of World Record of number of downloads for a piece of software in 24 hours… A record never set before. The first thought that came to me was… huh? How can this number not be set already – by Adobe (or [...]
Jacobi Algorithm in AS3
Recently, my “Calculus for Computer Science” teacher assigned the following problem. So to complete this assignment, I decided to use Actionscript 3 and Flash. A friend of mine and I at Georgia Tech are developing a complex open source matrix library called as3matrix, and we were planning on implementing Jacobi to find eigenvectors of a [...]
Object Oriented Programming without a Computer
Artists see the world as a canvas. They represent environments, objects, and abstractions with shapes, shades, and colors. Pride and honor can be shown in a sculpture, or love may be represented with red colors and heart shapes. Architects envision the world as a blueprint; objects have structure and forces acting upon them from other [...]
My bad
Someone reported to me that none of the links on the blog were working (including comments). Turned out to be a .htaccess problem. Fixed it. My bad.
Ground Control to Major Tom
I know I’m supposed to say something like “Welcome to my blog, here I’ll try to write about …” or something of the sorts. Truth is, is that this is probably the 4th time I’ve started a blog. It’s not like I don’t have the time (and often I don’t) or have nothing to say [...]