Month: June 2008

Lamp-Free DLP Projector coming late 2008

TIDLP I’ve probably found my next projector, if only price is right…

Texas Instruments DLP® Products Demonstrates Innovation Leadership with New Prototypes Including Lamp-Free
Projector DLP unveils the world’s first 3-D Front Projector and shows the first DLP Pico chipset product
Texas Instruments at InfoComm DLP® Products introduced the industry’s first home theater lamp-free projector
that utilizes a PhlatLight™ LED light source and a BrilliantColor™ chipset. This technology demo delivers a superior
1080p picture for which DLP technology is known, while eliminating maintenance costs such as lamp replacements
and filter changes required by some competing projector products. Multiple DLP customers have plans to develop
DLP lamp-free LED-based projectors, including Optoma, with units expected to ship in late 2008. Similar to the
deployment of DLP Product’s now popular BrilliantColor technology, the solid-state, lamp-free innovation will first
be incorporated into home theater units and proliferate through corporate and education product lines thereafter.

Benefits of Lamp-free projectors

  • LED are coming from Luminus (120’000 hours lifetime or 13 years!),
  • With DLP chipset, more light can reach the screen resulting in a 50% increase in color gamut range producing more
    than 200 trillion colors!
  • Contrast ratio expected in excess of 500,000:1.
  • 30% lower power usage
  • No cooling  or FAN, no dust and cleaning required
  • hundreds of euro in savings from lamp purchases.

Visit http://www.luminus.com/ and http://www.dlp.com/

JAZOON 2008 international conference on java – Zürich 23 to 26 June 2008

jazoon08 

I will be there on wednesday and thursday in Zürich Sihl City and here is the program

 

And I will attend the following sessions tomorrow:

Register, read the program just go there: http://jazoon.com/

J-1 for Eclipse Ganymede

Don’t forget that the latest version of eclipse is due to be released tomorrow 🙂

 eclipse.ganymede 

"The goal of the Ganymede Simultaneous Release is currently the same as last year’s goal for Europa: to release N major #Eclipse
projects at the same time. We are doing this simultaneous release to support the needs of the ecosystem members who integrate
Eclipse frameworks into their own software and products. While those product producers naturally accept the ultimate responsibility
for their customers’ experiences, Ganymede’s goal is to eliminate uncertainity about project version numbers, and thus to allow
ecosystem members to start their own integration, cross-project, and cross-product testing efforts earlier. Ganymede is about
improving the productivity of the developers working on top of #Eclipse frameworks by providing a more transparent and predictable
development cycle; Ganymede is about developers helping developers serve the whole #Eclipse community."

Download the latest eclipse Ganymede version

NOTE:

Ganymede is a natural satellite of Jupiter and the largest natural satellite in the Solar System. The next moon of Jupiter that may be use
for the next release of #Eclipse may be IO…

Eclipse IDE shortcuts

I found today the mother of all shortcuts in eclipse, by accident….

Type CTRL-3 in eclipse and a pop windows will appear where you can type any part of
a keyword

eclipse.best.shortcut.ctrl-3

The windows will propose you anything related to your search (here I am searching
the rename refactoring, for the example)

shortcut

This is the most easiest way to learn new tricks (news and noteworthy release note being the second).

If you prefer the old way, that is by printing a huge list of shortcut list, here is what
I found to be the most up to date:
http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/shortcuts.html

Get your Firefox certificate

Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we got more than
8 million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours. That’s more Firefox downloads than we’ve ever
had in a single day — an impressive feat indeed!

cedricwalter-firefox-certificate

by going there: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form

And see where it has been downloaded the most here http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

It is always time to give Firefox a try by downloading it 😉
firefox3

code_swarm commit is a form or art

This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository. Both developers and files are represented as moving elements. When a developer commits a file, it lights up and flies towards that developer. Files are colored according to their purpose, such as whether they are source code or a document. If files or developers have not been active for a while, they will fade away. A histogram at the bottom keeps a reminder of what has come before.

this is how it look like with eclipse from eclipse.org

 

code_swarm – #Eclipse (short ver.) from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

 

 An experiment in organic software visualization.

Beautiful site design and site generator for the others ;-)

“About a year ago, I compiled a huge list of artistic sites. It seems like the trend has carried
on in 2008 and is growing stronger (thank God the glossy style is gone). So what’s hot now?
Pencil sketches, handwritten notes, card stocks, watercolor effects, collage art, script fonts,
grungy and splatter ink backgrounds (glossy gradients are not “in” this year). Another trend to
be on the lookout for are the vintage and retro styles which I’ve posted earlier this year.
Here is a list of 82 sites picked from Best Web Gallery that show the current design trends.“

So for the rest of use, not fortunate enough to afford  a designer, there is still a lot of options like

TemplateShaker is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) xhtml/css template generator.

“Using this tool is pretty simple: just click and customize the look and feel of the template on
the fly, in complete WYSIWYG environment. Save the template and it is done – just open the
template generated with your favorite html editor and use it for your sites. It is free of charge
– both for non-commercial and commercial use. You are free to use the templates on all your
sites and all your client’s sites.

This product is designed to give web designer quick and easy way to modify the look of
predefined template layouts. You can change the images, backgrounds, text colors, page
background etc. This initial release comes with 3 templates predefined but you can produce
hundreds of templates by playing with the different customization settings. The templates
which this tool generates are free to use if you keep the credits link at the bottom.
(However – in case you want to remove the credits, there is commercial version available)“

For all #Joomla reader up there I recommend you to visit #JoomlaOS.de with its 2460 #Joomla templates available under GPL