Testing the Video Tags for HTML5
Here's a set of four video tags that I created to test how well video tags work in browsers for an InfoWorld story. If you can see a flying logo, you know the video format works in your browser. Ogg...
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Here's a little Canvas tag tester I built to test whether browsers implement the Canvas tag. Note the floating orange links are active. If you click on them, you'll be taken to that part of InfoWorld....
View ArticleTesting SVG for HTML5
Here's a piece of embedded SVG. If your browser can see this, you see SVG just mixed in with HTML. If you can see colored things, pure embedding is working. After the break comes an iFrame with the...
View ArticleTest some of the embedded data objects.
If you're curious about whether your browser supports some of the current data objects, this table reports the results of testing them. It's a companion to my article at InfoWorld about the new...
View ArticleDoes your browser support enhanced forms?
If you're curious about whether your browser supports some of the current data objects, this table is a way to experiment with how they behave on your browser. Type in these slots and watch the...
View ArticleTesting the Geolocation Object
If you're curious about whether your browser supports some of the current tools for checking your location, click below. (And note that this just triggers an event at the javascript level. The browser...
View ArticleFree for All -- Now in Kindle Form
For grins, I monkeyed around with the Kindle tool to build a Kindle version of Free for All .
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How To Hide Online
How to Hide Online is now available for the iPad. A version for Android tablets is coming soon. The book explores the secrets of how to hide information where it can't be seen. The five core chapters...
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Science Friday interview is now online
You can now listen to me talk in the Science Friday segment on steganography and the Al Queda files discovered in a movie. It's a basic intro.
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Discount code for the Open Source Search conference
I'll be speaking about translucent databases and unstructured text databases at the Open Source Search conference on October 2nd. The main focus will be on extending Lucene and Solr for big projects....
View ArticleAttention Must Be Paid, But for $800?
Have you ever wondered how things got so expensive? Have you ever felt that inflation was much worse than the 2 or 3% gain that's reported in the news? When journalist Peter Wayner found the financial...
View ArticleFuture Ride
80 Ways the Self-Driving, Autonomous Car Will Change Everything from Buying Groceries to Teen Romance to Surving a Hurricane to Turning Ten to Having a Heart Attack to Building a Dream Home to Simply...
View ArticleTable of Contents for Java RAMBO Manifesto
1 RAM 11.1 Embracing RAM Resident Data21.2 Why This May Not Be For You 51.3 Threat Models61.4 ACID Compliance 71.5 Using the Book 92 Basic Object in Files 112.1 An Example 122.2
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SAT Sneak Attack
Two students take the SAT. One uses a brain, a pencil and scratch paper. The other uses all of these, plus a dictionary, math assistant, concierge and advisor. Who wins? Today’s high school students...
View ArticleCourse Survey
Name *First Choice *- Select -HudsonDockerWordPressNode.jsjQueryDjangoRuby on RailsGitCoffeescriptEmberAngularMongoDBCouchGroovyErlangLimeJSSecond Choice *Hudson Docker WordPress Node.js jQuery Django...
View ArticleTroop 1000 Summer Camp 2014
Summer Camp Availability June 21-27 June 28-July 4 July 5 -11 July 12-18 July 19-25 Please check all weeks that might work. Summer Camp Favorite Week June 21-27 June 28-July 4 July 5 -11 July 12-18...
View ArticleTroop 1000 High Adventure Summer Plans
Scout Name *What We Do Canoeing (Lakes in the Adirondacks or the Allagash River in Maine)Weight 123Hiking (Adirondack mountains)Weight 123Bicycling (Cape Cod)Weight 123Do we hike, bike or paddle?...
View ArticleCompression Algorithms -- Errata
Errata Please send along any other errors you find in the book and note if you don't want me to credit you. In the past, I've paid people for finding errors. If I launch such a program for this book,...
View ArticleTable of Contents for Java RAMBO Manifesto
1 RAM 11.1 Embracing RAM Resident Data21.2 Why This May Not Be For You 51.3 Threat Models61.4 ACID Compliance 71.5 Using the Book 92 Basic Object in Files 112.1 An Example 122.2
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