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.
Google introduced a new programming language: Go It’s a merging of Python and C++. Read more about it at GoLang.org
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.
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.
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.
2D Boy, the folks behind “World of Goo”, have released a Rapid Prototyping Framework.
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
