HTML 5 -- The Future of the Web ?

Some have embraced it, some have discarded it as too far in the future, and some have abandoned a misused friend in favor of an old flame in preparation. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, you’ve most likely heard all the blogging chatter surrounding the “new hotness” that is HTML5. It’s everywhere, it’s coming, and you want to know everything you can before it’s old news.

Things like jQuery plugins, formatting techniques, and design trends change very quickly throughout the Web community. And for the most part we’ve all accepted that some of the things we learn today can be obsolete tomorrow, but that’s the nature of our industry.

When looking for some stability, we can usually turn to the code itself as it tends to stay unchanged for a long time (relatively speaking). So when something comes along and changes our code, it’s a big deal; and there are going to be some growing pains we’ll have to work through. Luckily, rumor has it, that we have one less change to worry about.

In this article, I’m hoping to give you some tips and insight into HTML5 to help ease the inevitable pain that comes with transitioning to a slightly different syntax.

This specification evolves HTML and its related APIs to ease the authoring of Web-based applications. Additions include context menus, a direct-mode graphics canvas, a full duplex client-server communication channel, more semantics, audio and video, various features for offline Web applications, sandboxed iframes, and scoped styling. Heavy emphasis is placed on keeping the language backwards compatible with existing legacy user agents and on keeping user agents backwards compatible with existing legacy documents.

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Sony 3D Television To Be Released In 2010 - A New Form Of Entertainment?

3D TV has been a promise stretching back into the 1950s, known as the Golden Age of 3D, when Disney, Paramount and Universal all had 3D film offerings and at the time felt the technology was the way of the future for video content. What killed that vision was the eye strain and headaches that usually resulted from an evening of viewing a 3D movie.

Fast forward a few technology cycles later, and 3D has come around again. For the past few years we've been seeing fledgling attempts at 3D TV from various manufacturers, but it seems like 2009 is the year all the majors are debuting versions of their own 3D technologies. We had a chance to get our oculars on Sony's working prototype and found the tech to be getting surprisingly close to prime time.

We're still not totally sold on 3D as the true next step of video content, but the clarity and depth of the trailers we saw were rather impressive. Gone are the ghosting and trail effects we've seen in the recent past, and the footage is no longer afflicted with errant afterimages and shadow outlines prominent especially during high motion sequences. The 3D content we saw on Sony's set was crystal clear and immersive.

We can't say we were entirely free of adverse effects after about 8 minutes of viewing. However, it's hard to say how much the 3D content versus a long couple of days of trade show coverage on little sleep was to blame. It definitely seems that the 3D trend is in full swing with Sony, Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic and Philips all showing off 3D displays on the show floor this year; many of them claim the technology will be in consumer homes as early as next year.

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Data Warehousing with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

As business operations become more complex, the demand f or change in IT increases accordingly,complete with associated risks that must be mitigated. Today's IT profes sionals are being asked to manage more information, and deliver that information to their users, with ever increasing quality of service, in a timely manner. And, in today's economic climate, IT is additionally tasked with reducing budgets and deriving greater value out of its existing investments.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 provides the foundation for IT to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, reduce the risk of

change within IT, and make more efficient use of their IT budgets. By deploying Oracle Database 11g Release 2 as their data management foundation, organizations can utilize the full power of the world's leading database to:

• Reduce server costs by a factor of 5
• Reduce storage requirements by a factor of 12
• Improve mission critical systems performance by a factor of 10
• Increase DBA productivity by a factor of 2
• Eliminate idle redundancy in the data center, and
• Simplify their overall IT software portfolio.

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