I love Geometry Wars on XBox360; it's a great arcade-style game that's perfect for killing a couple of minutes. Amazingly, though, it's apparently one of the few games that distributes its computation across the XBox's three cores.
I find it wildly amusing that something that is essentially an updated "Asteroids …
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more ...Because "I've got a joystick in my pocket" is way too obvious to describe Levi Strauss' iPod-ready jeans.
more ...Apple announced the first Intel-based Macs today. Presumably, this will drive down the eBay-arbitrated fair market value of second-hand Macs, especially the FMV of what had previously been higher-end machines but which would now be "good enough to develop on," machines. Hmmm...
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From the MAKE newsletter:
there's a need for a Java-to-C guide--not just the language, but how it's really used in major apps, how to account for everything you're importing, best practices like unit testing, packaging, exception handling, etc.
It seems perverse at first, but the more I think about it …
more ...Huzzah! IronPython 1.0 Beta 1 is released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94082d26-e689-4f7f-859b-fec6dacf3ae8&displaylang=en
more ...Andrew Binstock , my colleague at SD Times has a fantastic column on the realities of OSS development. The idea of a community that contributes code (as opposed to contributing bug reports) is largely a myth.
more ...So a second ago I brought up my homepage and was surprised to see a little "Suspicious Website" button beside the address bar. A phishing site? Moi? So, the good news is that you click on it and right away there's a link that says "I'm the owner, and I …
more ...Don Demsak brings up the question of making money off blogging. This is appealing to me, not so much because I like blogging but because I make, in most years, the majority of my money by writing. So, although you wouldn't know it from the quality of the writing on …
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