Earthlings - Can you face the truth?

Public Service Announcement Number Two:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthlings_(documentary)

The Story of Stuff

Public Service Announcement Number One:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

A Quick Start to Hello World

Panagiotis Astithas is setting out to give people a tour of Helma, starting with a quick start guide to the very first steps of getting up and running .

The Overlooked Power of Javascript

Glenn Vanderburg has put video and slides of "The Overlooked Power of Javascript" online, a presentation he gave last fall at JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark.

If you do not yet understand Javascript as a powerful programming language, this presentation will serve as a good introduction. It won't really make you see the power, but it will give you an idea where to go and look to find it.

Adobe's position on ES4 features, plus the Flex 3 SDK source code is now available under the MPL

Larsen Hansen and Jeff Dyer have issued a position statement outlining Adobe's point of view on how the ECMA TG1 should proceed towards ES4 . Looks reasonable to me.

Plus the Flex 3 SDK source code is now available under the MPL and includes tools to disassemble .swf Flash files. It also contains the code for the actionscript compiler. Note that they messed up, however, and the compiler modules are missing in the released download package. They have since added the missing files to the subversion repository . So, you'll need to check it out from there .

Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen

"Plants trees and algae do it. Even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, Penn State researchers have a proof-of-concept device that can split water and produce recoverable hydrogen."

http://wattwatt.com/pulses/236/solar-cell-directly-splits-water-for-hydrogen/

Asynchronous Beer and Geeking and other opportunities to talk about Helma, Rhino and Javascript on the server-side

What's the one senseful thing to do if you live anywhere remotely near a pub called "The Rhino"? Exactly, you go there to talk about Rhino and the wonderful things you can do with it on the server-side thanks to Helma . For example, you can do this at The Rhino in Toronto , where Kristan "Krispy" Uccello initiated a meetup of Javascript geeks to take place every second Monday evening of the month.

The next Ajax Pub Nite is February 11, 2007 at 7pm in Toronto at The Rhino.

If you live at the other end of the world, I'm sure Maksim Lin's talk on Web Development with Helma would be another excellent opportunity for Rhino chatter. I assume that takes place somewhere in Melbourne, Australia, but the exact place and time is yet to be announced.

Then there would be another chance at the OpenExpo in Berne , Switzerland, where I'll be presenting the Helma project on the 12th and 13th of March 2008.

And if you are at Lift'08 this week, I won't mind talking about Helma there either :-)

>>> Openmocha and Jhino updated to 0.8