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TL;DR: Source here, live demo here. ROME project WebGL is an amazing piece of technology that enables browsers to natively render hardware accelerated 3d creations (yay, no o3d plugin needed!). I’ve always been specially amazed by what Mr Doob has been doing with his Three.js framework for quite a while (in particular his participation on the ROME project, which I briefly talked about recently). N

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing — Alan J. Perlis Edit Feb/2014: Please note that this post is from 2011, a few weeks after Clojurescript was released. Things changed a lot in the mean time… In the past few years Javascript has gained a lot of attention and ubiquity: HTML5 technologies leverage a lot of Javascript, which enables people to cre

Many developers are used to low-level concurrency primitives, such as locks, monitors and semaphores. Java also has higher level concurrency utilities such as Atomic Objects and Fork/Join framework. Such primitives still require a lot of attention to shared variables, and are very easy to get wrong. Ilya Grigorik recently discussed other models of concurrency on his recent post Concurrency with Ac

Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. — Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, LL2 When I heard the Smalltalk traits of Ruby, I was intrigued. When I learned more, I enjoyed Ruby’s similarities with one of the most beautiful and powerful languages I’ve known. As I dug deeper, I enjoyed more of its wonderful metaprogramming abilities, whi