Fennec 1.0 gource

By dougt | Published: February 15, 2010

Fennec 1.0 has been released for the N900 devices.  It is fun to look back to see how far everything has come.  One interesting way to view the development progress is a visualization tool called gource.  Gource produced this graph for the frontend changes that make up Fennec 1.0 (best viewed in HD).

There are lots of nobs and switches to gource.  The command to produce this video is:

gource -s 0.001 –output-framerate 25 –highlight-all-users –stop-at-end –disable-progress –auto-skip-seconds 0.1 –file-idle-time 10 –max-files 1500 –multi-sampling -1280×720 –stop-at-end   –output-ppm-stream – | ffmpeg -y -b 30000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i – -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -crf 28 -threads 0 fennec.mp4

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A group of N900’s

By dougt | Published: January 29, 2010

what do you call a group of N900’s?

A bunch of N900

A bunch of N900

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Labyrinth Game in the browser

By dougt | Published: December 21, 2009

A few months ago, I mentioned the game Labyrinth and how I wanted this to work in the browser. Syd Lawrence took up the cause and put together a cool implementation.

Play it here. You must be running Firefox 3.6 RC or better.

This uses the new orientation events added to Firefox 3.6.

Syd also put together a demo of what orientation looks like for those that do not have Firefox 3.6:

This web feature is going to be standardized in the W3C in one of two working groups.  The general idea is to separate out acceleration (values in g) and orientation (values in degrees for azimuth, roll, pitch).  More on that next year when we figure out where the work will be done!

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ncat ascii art

By dougt | Published: December 21, 2009
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