Hey good news about numpy now supporting Python 3. Some of you will have seen that announcement. I'm getting ready for DjangoCon here in Portland, am likely to be 'snake handler' again this year, carry the PSF totem around, a token of friendship when she meets up with Djangopony. I've been looking at some of the swoopy effects in HTML5, thinking about the future of trucking software, such as transportation system managers. http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/tomorrows-guis.html http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/notes-on-trucking.html http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ (not all browsers will handle, I'm using Chrome, worth doing the demo).
From last Djangocon:
""" Erich Ocean: HTML5 is a technical spec, but culturally its more a Flash killer. The beefy JavaScript engines are making a big difference. Dynamic languages win again (sorry Java). SproutCore is the HTML5 application framework adopted by and now developed at Apple. It's open source, like WebKit and LLVM. Erich thinks WebKit is the future for the browser, thinks Django is well positioned on the server side. Webkit will run on Windows. HTML5 is moving faster than many think. You'll be able to sneak WebKit in the back door into IE6 even. This talk relates to the anticipated future of low latency push apps that keep updating the browser without waiting for client-side requests i.e. like Comet (see above). HTML5 web sockets... """ http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2009/09/djangocon-day-3.html As always, when I look at industry software, I think about how this could translate to the pre-college curriculum. Given my Geometry + Geography paradigm, I see trucking mixing with Google Street View as a way to learn more about a given topography (anywhere trucks travel, doesn't have to be North America or anything so parochial -- how about Phuntsholing to Samdrup Jonkar by inland mountain road (via Tongsa, Mongar and Tashigang) -- sounds like Lord of the Rings. I've done it the whole way (though not as a truck driver) at one time or another. http://www.4dsolutions.net/satacad/martianmath/mm12.html (Geometry + Geography) Or instead of a truck, a bizmo (business mobile): http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2007/10/designing-engineers.html (funny lookin'). I'm off to a meeting on open source in Afghanistan, per recent posting to Diversity. Kirby
kirby urner schrieb:
Hey good news about numpy now supporting Python 3. Some of you will have seen that announcement.
I'm getting ready for DjangoCon here in Portland, am likely to be 'snake handler' again this year, carry the PSF totem around, a token of friendship when she meets up with Djangopony.
I've been looking at some of the swoopy effects in HTML5, thinking about the future of trucking software, such as transportation system managers.
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/tomorrows-guis.html http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/notes-on-trucking.html
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ This is really a great demo ... Given my Geometry + Geography paradigm, I see trucking mixing with Google Street View as a way to learn more about a given topography
We have a big discussion in Europe at the moment (especially Germany and Austria) concerning the question if google streetview is legal in our countries or should be restricted/forbidden. Concerning html5 and given your Geometry + Geography paradigm you might want to have a look at what can be done with the htlm-canvas element alone: http://www.phpguru.org/html5-examples Regards, Gregor
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Gregor Lingl <gregor.lingl@aon.at> wrote: << snip >>
This is really a great demo
... Given my Geometry + Geography paradigm, I see trucking mixing with Google Street View as a way to learn more about a given topography
We have a big discussion in Europe at the moment (especially Germany and Austria) concerning the question if google streetview is legal in our countries or should be restricted/forbidden.
Good hearing from you. People leery (suspicious) in the UK as well. There's a "public roads" argument, i.e. public roads should be accessible to Google's spy vehicles, just as space is to satellites. Gated communities, private property owners, might deny access. However, not every society has a well-defined notion of "public roads". Here's the Blue House where I hang out quite a bit: http://tinyurl.com/238y58r It's an old picture though, the car in the driveway long ago recycled. We also have more vegetables growing in front, thinks to the live-in Global U student (getting a degree in community organizing).
Concerning html5 and given your Geometry + Geography paradigm you might want to have a look at what can be done with the htlm-canvas element alone:
Way cool, forwarded to Facebook (where some math teachers track me), with attribution to one Gregor on edu-sig (one of the greats). Kirby
Regards, Gregor
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