Finally got some down time here at work and figured I’d have a poke around in this Papervision stuff.

Have always managed to stave off working with 3D in the past, but from what I’d seen of it, Papervision looked like it had made the whole process a hell of a lot simpler and more manageable.

Found a few really good resources and did a few demos:

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Need to find an excuse to do a site with it now

Was messing around today and came up with a little bookmarklet to create a new Calendar event.

I’m sure it could be greatly improved upon, but for a quick click thing, it’s pretty useful. It takes the Title of the page as the event and prompts you for a date/time. Haven’t tested it without being logged into my google account, so no guarantees there
Create a new link in the links bar of your browser and paste the following javascript as the URL. (note:IE will say something about the protocol, but just ignore it)

javascript: function pad(d){ return d<10?”0″+d:d; } function gdate(d,t){ var da = d.split( “/” ); var s = da[2] + pad(Number(da[1])) + pad(Number(da[0])); if( t ) { ta = t.split( “:” ); s += “T” + pad(Number(ta[0])) + pad(Number(ta[1])) + “00Z”; } return s; } var d = new Date(); var date = prompt( “Enter Event Date (DD/MM/YYYY): “,pad(d.getDate()) + “/” + pad(d.getMonth()+1) + “/” + d.getFullYear() ); if( date!=null ) { var time = prompt( “Enter Event Start Time in 24 clock format (HH:MM):\n(leave blank for an ‘All-Day Event’)”,pad(d.getHours()) + “:” + pad(d.getMinutes()) ); if( time!=null ) { var gd = gdate(date,time); var w = window.open( ‘http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=’ + document.title + ‘&dates=’ + gd + ‘/’ + gd + ‘&details=’ + escape( document.location ) ); } } void(0);