Introduction to SVG Web
A very quick one minute run-through showing the SVG Web project and it’s demos. The SVG Web project is at http://code.google.com/p/svgweb
SVG Web is a JavaScript library which provides SVG support on many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Using the library plus native SVG support you can instantly target ~95% of the existing installed web base.
Once dropped in you get partial support for SVG 1.1, SVG Animation (SMIL), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting through JavaScript, and more in about a 60K library. Your SVG content can be embedded directly into normal HTML 5 or through the OBJECT tag. If native SVG support is already present in the browser than that is used, though you can override this and have the SVG Web toolkit handle things instead. No downloads or plugins are necessary other than Flash which is used for the actual rendering, so its very easy to use and incorporate into an existing web site.
MIT Education? Why Not? MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT provides free course materials through their MIT OpenCourseWare.
Google Summer of Code 2009 InfoTalk @ Cal State L.A.
I hosted the Google Summer of Code 2009 InfoTalk today at California State University, Los Angeles. Overall of the event was great. There were about 27 students who attended the event, some left early, and some came in late, but in my perspective, I have successfuly achieved the goal of getting them excited about Open Source and start to get involved!
The event’s report is also published at Google Open Source blog. Thank you to Google, Googlers, and my friends who’ve been very supportive! Cesar, thank you for helping me getting the chips and sodas
