http://www.satine.org charles ying's web journal about music, art, and all sorts of things Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:05:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Smaller bars are better. Update: The previous graphs came out unintentionally misleading as I tried to resize them to fit my blog. Corrected (thanks Hasan), click to see it full size. Wow. I compared WebKit's new SquirrelFish bytecode JavaScript interpreter against Tamarin, the JIT JavaScript engine currently in Flash 9 and in development ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2008/06/03/squirrelfish-is-faster-than-tamarin/ Well after being under NDA for so long, I'm glad to be able to say that Amazon SimpleDB has gone into limited beta. Congratulations to everyone on the SDS / SimpleDB team; their several years of work on SimpleDB (formerly called SDS) is a brilliant piece of engineering. What's cool about ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/12/13/amazon-simpledb/ Here's what John Carmack said at the WWDC '07 Keynote during his demo: ... in fact we're showing on the Mac platform, the PC, the PS3, and the 360, the same data running. We're going to be demoing this at E3, as well as our QuakeCon in August and I expect ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/06/12/a-mac-games-announcement-in-august/ It's official. Want to build applications for the iPhone? Safari is the solution. Web Standards is the SDK. As I wrote about earlier this month, and this year, this is how you do it. It's standards based, it's pretty, and it's the future. Apple announced their iPhone extensions, there's lots of integration points ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/06/11/safari-is-the-iphone-developer-platform/ Today, John Gruber wrote an article asking for an iPhone SDK. Well, it's here, but if you want it, you need to see things differently. -- For developers, the biggest thing about iPhone is that Apple has reinvented the mobile application platform. This isn't mobile Flash, mobile Java, or even the ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/06/01/iphone-sdk-developer-preview-now-available/ A long post. Enjoy. :-) Today, my friend Rand Wacker revived a great post about browsers as the ultimate application platform. At a high level, I agree with him, but the reason why we're not seeing more "multi-platform" applications is that right now, for many companies, the web browser application platform ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/05/29/how-to-build-the-next-ultimate-application-platform/ FaceBook released their new OS Platform this afternoon. It's a big deal, but it's hard to get a grasp on what the new changes are for developers. Briefly, the FaceBook Platform extends the existing FaceBook API with: A few new APIs, for setting FBML on a user's profile. A new FaceBook markup language, FBML, ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/05/24/facebook-platform-in-a-nutshell/ ... a complete fabrication. April Fools! Didn't see it? See here: Digg. http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/04/02/the-iphone-aloha-architecture-overview-is/ Wow. I was surfing Scribd this morning for some code snippets and I happened upon this thing. It looks like a high level block diagram of the OS X that's running in the iPhone. I'm not sure how much you can tell from this picture about what's going on, ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/04/01/leaked-iphone-architecture-document/ I have good friends who work on "secret" projects at Google (among other companies). Recently, news about Google's acquisition of Mike Reed's company, Skia, was leaked. Thus, I believe I can talk more freely about it now. So here's the thing. Last year, Google open sourced the Skia vector graphics engine ... http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/03/05/the-skia-source-code-dilemma/