The Mozilla Foundation is working on a new Javascript compiler called Tracemonkey, writes Mike Shaver on his blog. This so-called jit compiler has shown it can parse Javascript up to forty (40) times faster that its predecessor.
To get to this massive improvement, Tracemonkey uses a technique called tracing. This means that collections of Javascript code [...]

This morning when starting up and figuring out where I left off yesterday, I came across the Flickr page of David Neff. David has a collection of quite impressive photographs, ranging from cars to high-speed bullets, motion-captures to macro’s. These collections are the source of my passion for photography: crystal clear shots of common and uncommon stuff which you would normally walk by not thinking anything, but when seen in a photograph gets you to realize how fascinating things actually are around you.

It’s almost that time of the year again for us people interested in the world of digital media. The IBC event is scheduled to be held at the Amsterdam RAI starting the 11th of September and will end the 16th of September. Last year I and two colleagues went there to do research. Last week I discussed this year’s event with one of them telling him how much I would like to go again and how I realized that it most likely wasn’t going to happen.