Google unfolds, introducing ChromeOS July 8th, 2009

I have spoken to quite a few leaders in the web world doing the last years, and naturally everyone wants to know where the next trend is. When the talk hit the topic of Googles all dominating web presence it has been clear for some time (since the launch of Chrome) that the last piece to complete the iron-to-cloud strategy was a pure web-centered operating system, bridging the local hardware with the web. Today Google finally announced their intentions in this direction, and it looks very much like the kind of system many people have envisioned. It’s interesting times indeed, and by now Microsoft must be scratching their heads asking themselves when they let that small startup company avoid assimilation.

To the crazy ones June 27th, 2009

Atmospheric reentry simulation in Javascript June 14th, 2009

The following is the altitude of a reentry vehicle, on its decent through the atmosphere.
What makes this interesting is the way of execution: notice the browser window? The entire simulation is running in javascript, using my javascript classes jVector and jMatrix. The plot is done in jPlot2D (pre-release), utilizing RaphaelJS.

The mathematics comes from this source.

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Rocket science in Javascript June 9th, 2009

Soon we will teach orbital mechanics to school children, stay tuned…