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Letters from a Gaming Newbie

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · SoftwareDev

I was pleased to attend Casual Connect this week and talked about how HTML5 is becoming viable for games development, alongside my colleague Mark, who covered the Chrome Web Store in general. I was definitively there in a purely web geek capacity, as gaming is not an industry I’m very familiar with. So here are [...]

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Upcoming: UXCampEurope and SWDC

May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · SoftwareDev

Google I/O is over and I’ll post a bit about the HTML5 hack session I ran later, but here I want to highlight a couple of upcoming sessions in Europe:

UXCampEurope. If this is anything like the Bay Area and London UX camps I’ve been fortunate to attend, it will be huge, and being Europe-wide and [...]

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Open World Forum Notes

October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · HumansAndTech, SoftwareDev

As mentioned in the previous post, I was at Open World Forum in Paris these past couple of days. Previous notes covered today’s FOSSBazaar workshop, here’s a veritable panaply of miscellany from the other sessions.

Opening Keynotes

Risk of balkanisation in communities govt (mil.forge) commercial (gcode) ?developer (eclipse)

Worldwide IT spend 3.48T 18% of apps abandoned 55% “challenged”

Poprietary software quality [...]

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FossBazaar at Open World Forum (OWF), Paris, Oct-2009

October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · SoftwareDev

Quick notes from today’s FOSSBazaar event at Open World Forum in Paris. Usual caveats on typos etc as I was writing these notes live.

Martin Michlmayr overviews FOSSBazaar

Procurement – might like to avoid, but they have a really important role to play. With open source, it’s easy to ignore procurement – why go through procurement when [...]

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FOSSBazaar Workshop

April 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · SoftwareDev

I’ve been at the FOSSBazaar workshop in SF for the past couple of days – an afternoon session and a session this morning. It’s part of the Linux Summit, FOSSBazaar being a workgroup of the Linux Foundation (though it’s not Linux-specific). (It was news to me that Good Friday isn’t an official public holiday in [...]

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Another DHTML “Game”

October 6th, 2005 · No Comments · HumansAndTech, Links, SoftwareDev

A new DHTML boxing “game” from the Man In Blue. Not quite DHTML Lemmings or Super Maryo World, but still more fun than it should be. A bit like the Ruby On Rael thing in reverse.

Also from the same presentation is an eerily lifelike OSX clone (Firefox-only). More evidence that Ajax might be useful [...]

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