A while ago I developed a canvas-based version of bomberman. It’s a fairly dynamic game, in a browser, no flash. Unfortunately it uses canvas which doesn’t work on IE6 (or IE7) though it works on the other 3 target browsers (Opera, firefox, and safari). Fortunately, again, google created a toolkit that fakes canvas support using [...]
This post on the GWT newsgroup lists All plans for 2007 Q1. Check out #1: making java1.5 language features (foreach, generics, autoboxing and unboxing, etcetera) work in GWT! w00t!
I doubt there is a better example: Nintendo is beating two of the largest companies of the world; Sony and Microsoft, simply by knowing they can’t compete within the rules of the game, so they changed the rules. I mean, Look at this… I don’t like game consoles and I really don’t like Mortal Kombat-style [...]
Google has recently released MacFUSE, a nicely packaged up mac port of the FUSE drivers; these allow ‘user level’ (e.g. do not require being administrator to install, rebooting, and other nastiness) software to create virtual drives. Just do give you an idea how brilliant this simple idea is, think of: A folder which contains, dynamically, [...]
Chris Oliver and company at Sun are doing some extremely neat work with ‘F3′ – a descriptive add-on to java (it compiles to .class files) that completely revolutionizes the way you build GUIs. Without sacrificing type safety it makes writing GUIs a total snap, and, most importantly, the F3 code is extremely simple to maintain [...]
This brilliant bit of idea peddling analysis by Reg is one of those rare pieces that make you go… Well…. gee. DUH! I’m an idiot for not realizing this sooner – it’s beyond logical! I can heartily recommend it. By the way, for those of you who follow Alper’s dutch blog his entry on negative [...]
Funny stuff!
I’m back from an excellent vacation, and more about this later. However, for now, just a quick shine on the ongoing internet armchair debates on who really owns the “iPhone” name – apple, or cisco? It’s apple’s, and the reason is simple. Fortunately, in this case, Cisco’s clear bungling of the case should make this [...]