NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration - IEEE Spectrum
Airships in the atmosphere of Venus. More plausible than it might sound at first.
Archive: December 19th, 2014
Pizza.
Friday night is pizza night.
The @Clearleft office temporarily empties while we step outside to wave at the people in space.
The next ISS flyover is in 90 minutes.
FirefoxOS/Pinned Apps - MozillaWiki
This page does a great job of explaining Mozilla’s thinking behind “pinned apps”—an idea that would be great for the whole web, not just Firefox users.
Immigrant Song just came on the office stereo, so I felt I had to share @SalterCane’s take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjpbPY-TE2M
Implement Server-Side Rendering for SEO · Issue #9938 · emberjs/ember.js
The motivation seems entirely misplaced to me (SEO? Really?) but never mind: the end result could be the holy grail of JavaScript MVC frameworks — code that runs on the server and the client. That would get you the reach and initial rendering speed of progressive enhancement, combined with the power of client-side application logic once the page has loaded.
Watch this space.
Researching the Performance costs of JavaScript MVC Frameworks
The Filament Group run the numbers on how long it takes browsers to parse the JavaScript of popular MVC frameworks: Backbone, Angular, and Ember. The results—especially on mobile browsers—are not encouraging.