More HTML5 and Javascript

- A list of javascript functions.
- HTML5 canvas - the basics
- Layering multiple canvases: good for avoiding over redrawing.
- Using Multiple HTML5 Canvases as Layers
- Layering Multiple Canvas Elements using JavaScript and EaselJS
- Understanding save() and restore() for the Canvas Context
- Canvas motion blur

- HTML/JavaScript - Select list - Add/Remove Options: DOM, Old school.
- innerHTML, innerText, textContent.
- Snippets: Howto Grey-Out The Screen
- jQuery: Grey out background and preview image as popup
- Javascript Create New Div HTML Element Dynamically
- Canvas tutorial - From Mozilla, a very good one.

- 10个让人眼花缭乱的HTML5和JavaScript效果
- 13 个强大的基于 HTML5 的 Web 应用
- 当设计师遭遇HTML5 - Good article
- HTML5 完胜 Flash 的 7 大特性
- HAKIM
- HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet
- Dive Into HTML5
- 10k Apart Contest

- Web audio in chrome
- Building better web apps with a new Chrome Beta

- 深入HTML5: HTML5 本地存储( Local Storage )的前世今生

Several HTML5 web app of my favorite:
- Keylight
- Blob
- FlowPower

Obfuscated Programming Contests

Wiki: Obfuscated code

In C:
Wiki: International Obfuscated C Code Contest
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest Winning entries

In Assembly:
世界编程大赛第一名的3D程序 (or see here)
又是一个64k华丽至极的程序

Quine and Programming languages for fun

Quine is a program that prints itself. See wiki page on Quine. Here is a special Quine that prints a series of programs in 11 languages and eventually comes back to itself.

Here is an article BT雷人的程序语言（大全） about strange programming languages (made for fun in most cases). They are really funny. The end of this article gives these references:

- Esoteric_programming_languages
- Top 13 Most Absurd Programming Languages
- Befunge语言和文言文编程
- 疯狂的编程语言——ENGLISH，Chef Shakespeare
- DM’s Esoteric Programming Languages
- 十大另类程序语言（上）
- 十大另类程序语言（下）

HTML 5

Some cool HTML 5 stuff:

CanvasMol
13 Amazing Examples of HTML5 and CSS3
20款绝佳的HTML5应用程序示例
学习HTML5不可错过的12家国外网站
Create a Drawing App with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript
3D effect with only html and css: CSS 3D Meninas
Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem with Genetic Algorithms and HTML5 Web Workers
HTML5笔记(1-3)
HTML5 differences from HTML4

Web开发人员应当知道的15个开源项目

C# Mapping a network drive

C# can map a network drive by calling OS commands [1] or using native win32 API [2].

The code below is from [1]:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("net.exe", "use K: \\Server\URI\\path\\here");
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName = "C:\\application.exe";
psi.WorkingDirectory = "K:\\working\\directory";
psi.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.
ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized;
System.Diagnostics.Process p =
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi);

[1] http://forum.codecall.net/c-programming/1119-c-mapping-network-drive.html
[2] http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/812115-mapping-network-drive-c

Nature: The Future of the PhD

Nature: The Future of the PhD [Nature 472 (20 April 2011)]

Set of articles discussing the current (problematic) system of PhD, from the training of PhD to the career prospects, and speculations on ways to fix the problems.

A problem with process pipe communication in C#

In C#, the Process component communicates with a child process via a pipe. If a child process writes enough data to the pipe to fill the buffer, the child will block until the parent reads the data from the pipe. This can cause deadlock if your application is reading all output to standard error and standard output, for example, using the following C# code.

              Process p = new Process("...", "...");
              p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
              p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
              p.Start();
              p.WaitForExit();
              string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();

In this instance, both the parent and the child processes would be blocked, as the filled pipe prevents the child process from completing, while the parent process is waiting indefinitely for the child process to exit. The pipe buffer, in my code, was 4096 bytes. If the output reaches this limit, it would hang.

This problem can be solved by moving the ReadToEnd() before the WaitForExit(), as follows..

              Process p = new Process("...", "...");
              p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
              p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
              p.Start();
              string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
              p.WaitForExit();

References:
[1] http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/459800-redirect-standard-output-size-limit
[2] http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~lok/csharp/refdocs/System.Diagnostics/types/Process.html