It’s taken a while but Futurama will finally be returning to a TV screen near you. Amazon has product information listed for Futurama the Movie - Bender’s Big Score
Archive for September, 2007
PC Perspective has an excellent article entitled Rendering Games with Raytracing Will Revolutionize Graphics that goes through some of the progress made on real-time ray tracing engines and what the future might hold, at least according to Intel. If you don’t know what ray tracing is, the Wikipedia has the dirt as usual.
The debate about using tabs or spaces for indenting code. Which to use?
There is a new 2.2 release of Julien Lecomte’s fantastic YUI Compressor for minifying JavaScript. This version has some modified command line parameters and has further improved support for safely minifying JavaScript code.
Coding in JavaScript? I suggest you check out Douglas Crockford’s The Elements of JavaScript Style - Part 1 and Part 2.
Robert Jordan, the pen name of author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., died earlier today (by my local time). I read many of the books of the Wheel of Time series and it saddens me to hear of the author’s passing. My condolences to his friends and family.
While I wasn’t a real fan of the aforementioned series I did enjoy reading about the mythology of the world Robert Jordan created and liked to “check in” with the progress of the plot. Apparently Jordan left instruction revealing the intended progression of the story so that when, inevitably, another author is brought in to finish the work they can complete the final volume how it was originally envisaged.