The story in EWeek about why James Gosling quit Oracle.
Category Archive: programming
Jun
24
JavaOne … No Longer in Moscone
I went to nine JavaOne conferences. When Sun was running it, they held it in Moscone in San Francisco. Oracle has taken over, and they’re going to be in … The Hilton San Francisco at Union Square. I don’t know what it was about having it at Moscone. Just don’t think it’ll be the same.
Nov
11
Google Go
Google introduced a new programming language: Go It’s a merging of Python and C++. Read more about it at GoLang.org
Oct
01
AMD and Pixelux Announce Open Physics Initiative
AMD and Pixelux Entertainment have announced the Open Physics Initiative. Pixelux is the developer of the physics system used in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Aug
28
Snow Leopard includes a new Static Analysis tool
XCode 3.2, which ships with Snow Leopard, includes a static analysis tool, which will check your code for things like memory leaks. Good stuff.
Jun
27
The Netflix Prize Has Been Won
In 2006, Netflix announced a contest to improve the recommendation engine it uses by at least 10%. Yesterday it was announced that a team was able to reach 10.05%. Read more about it in Wired.com. The winning team wins $1,000,000.
May
29
World of Goo Rapid Prototyping Framework
2D Boy, the folks behind “World of Goo”, have released a Rapid Prototyping Framework.
Dec
02
Game Design Tour of World of Goo
Wolfire Blog has a great game design tour of World of Goo Design Tour – World of Goo from David Rosen on Vimeo. Really great observations. It’s a great game too. Just $15 on WiiWare. You can also get World of Goo for the Mac and PC