Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
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http://www.ted.com Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the "Wilderness Downtown" video that customizes fo... Read more
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- -: Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
May 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to ...
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- -: Developing JavaScript with Chickenfoot
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks July 25, 2006 Rob Miller Michael Bolin ABSTRACT Chickenfoot is a Firefox extension that embeds a JavaScript programming environment in the browser's sidebar. Unlike a JavaScript shell that simply supplies access to the DOM of a webpage, Chickenfoot provides users with a high-le...
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- -: Best Practices in Javascript Library Design
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 17, 2007 ABSTRACT This talk explores all the techniques used to build a robust, reusable, cross-platform JavaScript Library. We'll look at how to write a solid JavaScript API, show you how to use functional programming to create contained, concise, code, and delve deep ...
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- -: Changes to JavaScript, Part 1: EcmaScript 5
May 19, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk May 18, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Mark Miller, Waldemar Horwat, and Mike Samuel. Slides for this talk are available from http://google-caja.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/html/es5-talk/es5-talk.html Today's JavaScript is a decent language for writing small scale scripts. But...
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- -: Speed Up Your JavaScript
June 4, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk June 4, 2009 ABSTRACT Web Exponents: Speed Up Your JavaScript Presented by Nicholas C. Zakas. As an interpreted language, JavaScript is filled with hidden performance issues that conspire to slow down your code and ruin the user experience. Learn exactly what is fast, what ...
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- -: Browserscope & SpriteMe
September 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk September 17, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Lindsey Simon and Steve Souders. This talk covers two open source projects being released by Googlers. Browserscope (http://browserscope.org/) is a community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation...
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- -: CouchDB: Relaxing Offline JavaScript
September 25, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk September 24, 2009 slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jchrisa/couchdb-local-web-platform Web Exponents: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=689D6EE903ED5CB6&search_query=web+exponents ABSTRACT Presented by Chris Anderson. CouchDB's web API and offline replication capabiliti...
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- -: Changes to ECMAScript, Part 2: Harmony Highlights - Proxies and Traits
April 28, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk April 20, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Tom Van Cutsem. We discuss two proposed language features for inclusion in ECMAScript-Harmony. The first, dynamic proxies, enables Javascript programmers to create proxy objects that can intercept property access, assignment, enumeration, e...
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- -: Building a JavaScript-Based Game Engine for the Web
July 10, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk June 11, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Paul Bakaus. There are many professional game engines out there for consoles, PCs, and mobile handhelds. However, there is one big empty gap, even in 2010: Not a single game engine targets desktop and mobile browsers natively without the use...
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- -: Introduction to JavaScript and Browser DOM
July 13, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk July 12, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Misko Hevery. If you are new to JavaScript and would like to understand how JavaScript works behind the scenes, than this talk is for you. We will look at the core philosophy behind JavaScript objects and how the primitives can be used to bu...
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