Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

Dojo Foundation Sourceforge team will do their builds here.  Each night they do a gambit of automated tests.

Nightly Build Summary

Dijit Theme Tester <==My favorite

Test individual Dojo | Dijit | (Dojox tests not yet available) components

Ever wondered if your browser is fast enough?  Ever wanted to benchmark your browser?  Well there’s this tool called Futuremark that will do that for you.  Here’s a summary:

Futuremark’s aim with this benchmark is to put an end to the so-called “browser wars” by removing subjective opinions or analysis of performance with too much room for variability such as loading times.

ZoomTypically, a newly released browser will be subdued to the well known Acid3 web standards test but there are few universally used benchmarks which measure the performance of common web page functions. Peacekeeper is a purely JavaScript-driven benchmark and therefore only tests JavaScript functions. It does not test actual web page loading times and is therefore not affected by connection speeds and the variation that can occur there, nor does it test things like Flash.

Modern Fossil of Playstation controller

Gizmodo has an article about The Fossil Record Now Includes Outdated Personal Electronics
, where modern day electronics are carved in stone!

Civilizations eons from now will be able to visuallize modern day, ‘tools’.

So I was curious about Flex, an Adobe Product to make Rich Internet Interfaces on a website or on the desktop using Adobe AIR. Installed Flex Builder 3 and am exploring it.

Reminds me a lot of Visual Basic when I first used an IDE, but on the web.  Alot of reusable components will make this useful.

EDIT1: So I made my first Flex App.  This is a really simple ZipCode app using Flex Builder 3 that’ll take a ZipCode and spit out the information from a web service.

EDIT2: Ok so I did a search on the web and found someone else doing a Flickr Tileset using Flex Builder 2.  I take his source and update it to Flex Builder 3 (not as easy as Adobe said it would be), and this is the result: a very simple Flickr Tileset using Flex Builder 3.

To use Lindell’s new protocol, the first party (“Alice” in cryptography speak) would create a key with which both parties could encrypt their data. The key would be stored on a special kind of secure smart card. Alice would then hand over the smart card to the second party in the scenario (known as “Bob”), and both parties would use the key to encrypt their respective databases. Next Alice sends her encrypted database to Bob.

The contents of Alice’s encrypted database cannot be read by Bob, but he can see where it matches entries in the encrypted version of his own database. In this way, Bob can see what information both he and Alice share. For extra protection, Bob would only have a limited amount of time to use the secret key on the smart card because it is deleted remotely by Alice, using a special messaging protocol.

Source: Technology Review

I wonder if this could be extended for medical records, where I could generate a temporary key that I provide to  ‘Bob’, a hospital, who would then read from ‘Alice’, Google or another hospital who has my records.  Keeping a log knowing exactly what was viewed would be good to know.

So it seems that I’m pretty error prone and unlucky when it comes to keeping my characters alive while playing with my D&D group.

I have kept a log of all my character fatalities in the same on-going campaign for your enjoyment.
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Just installed this new widget for my tag cloud called WP-Cumulus and it looks and works great!

I really wish they put dynamic static binding into 5.2.9, but they did not. Nothing too impressive in the changelog, but might as well upgrade to the newest version anyway.

I’m going to wait though, right about to release and adding a version change near the end of a release cycle is too risky I’d say.

Two materials, lonsdaleite and wurtzite, have just been recognized as being harder than diamonds.

Lonsdalite, similar to diamonds that its made from carbon, is formed during asteroid impacts, and is 58% harder than its cousin. Wurtzite boron nitride is formed during heavy volcanic eruptions and can be up to 18% harder than diamonds.

Source

That’s pretty impressive. I wonder if we can learn anything from their molecular structures to improve other materials like steel or plastics?

Was looking at the DojoX components and noticed they had a Gallery. Interesting, so I go and make this sample here using Flickr services and its works out pretty well.

Now, if only I can figure out how to move the ThumbnailPicker to the bottom and turn off the slideshow…gotta love the documentation (may have to just look at the source). The Gallery component is just a wrapper anyway around ThumbnailPicker and the Slidershow DojoX components…