News
- Humble Indie Bundle http://www.humblebundle.com/
- Linux Kernel 3.0 http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/07/linux-kernel-version-bumped-up-to-30-as-20th-birthday-approaches.ars
- End of Shuttle Program http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
Tool of the Biweek
- Jason: Freemind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
- Patrick: Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/
Programming Language Discussion
History of HTML & CSS
- What is a markup language
- What happens when you visit a website
- What are Cookies (besides delicious)
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
- Inheritance (cascading)
- Site wide consistency
- HTML5: http://slides.html5rocks.com/
- XHTML, DHTML
Uses
- Web pages
- Mobile apps (http://www.phonegap.com/)
- Machine Generatable (PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python..)
Strengths
- Cross Platform
- Easy to deploy (Browsers on all machines)
- Hand writable
Weaknesses
- Non-interactive
- AJAX
- High overhead (each HTTP request is a TCP session)
- Browser incompatibilities
- Verbosity
