Erik's Weekend Web Report - Week 6 2009

VKI Studios started a weekly roundup blog post, a few weeks ago, which I have been submitting some links to each week, and this helped me decide to start a similar weekly post on my blog. There are plenty of other blogs doing basically the same sort of thing of course.

So, I thought I would start a weekly post to show some support for the videos, podcasts, and articles that interest me over the week.

• U.C. Berkeley Now Offers StarCraft Class

  I love the StarCraft and WarCraft games, they are by far my favorite real time strategy games. If you think Chess is a game for strategic thinkers, then you haven't met a well made rts game, and Blizzard Entertainment makes the best rts games. So I'm not surprised by this news at all. I can't wait for StarCraft II !!

• FireScope - HTML Brains at your Fingertips

  I just found this Firebug Extension, and it is a great tool.

• The New Product Manager for ColdFusion

  Adam Lehman is the new project manager for Adobe's ColdFusion now, congrats Adam!

• YUI Theater — John Resig: "The DOM Is a Mess"

  John Resig gives a good presentation of the state of web browsers for web developers.

• Irregexp, Google Chrome's New Regexp Implementation

  The Google Chrome developers are speeding everything up!

• Google Website Optimizer's YouTube Channel

  Here is the Google Website Optimizer YouTube channel.

• Official Google Website Optimizer Blog: Launching the Website Optimizer YouTube Channel

  Google has launched a YouTube Channel for their Website Optimizer product, check it out the announcement.

• John Resig: Performance Improvements in Browsers

  John Resig posts a presentation including the slides for the YUI Theater.

• Charlie Rose - A conversation with Chris DeWolfe And Tom Anderson, founders of Myspace.com

  Charlie Rose talks to Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson about MySpace. Even though I don't like MySpace, I thought it was an interesting conversation.

• Charlie Rose - A conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO Nvidia

  Charlie Rose talks with Jen-Hsun Huang the CEO of Nvidia whom I had not heard from before, and I thought he had some interesting thoughts on the current state and the future of the gpu.

• Bill Gates unplugged | Video on TED.com

  Bill Gates gives a TED presentation shares two problems he faces in philanthropy.

  1. "How do you stop a deadly disease that's spread by mosquitoes"
  2. "How do you make a teacher great?"

• TED Blog: Bill Gates' Q&A with Chris Anderson: Video unveiled

  Q&A between Bill Gates and TED's Chris Anderson, which follows Gates' brand-new TEDTalk.