Java 4k Game Competition 2008 is Over
"Only" 21 games this time, but boy there was some awesome stuff this year. The official scoring is over here: http://java4k.com/overall.html
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Prefer composition/delegation over inheritance is a good thing!
I am refactoring Nifty-GUI’s internal workings. Trying to make it less inheritance dependent.
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Live.com's Referrer Spam Has Left Me In Despair!
What it says on the tin, really. Comes with some nice diagrams and statistics.
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GWT Designer Contest
GWT Site is holding another contest to win one of three copies of GWT Designer from Instantiations. This is a really nice tool if you do any GWT... more »
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GNU Source-highlight 2.9
This new version comes with added support for C, properties, KDE desktop and ini files, lsm, rpm spec, and haXe - which ramps the total number of... more »
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GWT Tutorial - Using History mechanism to create an RSS reader app
This tutorial takes the background information on GWT History Management provided in the Managing History and Hyperlinks tutorial and uses it to... more »
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The Year the Web Stood Stupid
Outlines the bad decisions of the past and the issues we'll have to deal with in the future. A lot went wrong with HTML/CSS. While the markup part can... more »
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Obfuscating JavaScript and CSS: Open Source vs Commercial Solutions
Comparison of Javsscript/CSS obfuscation and compression tools from open-source community and commercial vendors. What's the best for you?
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Never-ending Shuffled Sequences - When Random is too Random
An in-depth article about random's pitfalls and an (easy to port) solution. Take a look if your game is too random for your taste. It also comes with... more »
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Acid3 browser test completed, available now
Ian Hickson, the Google employee tasked with creating the next generation of acid test, has completed his work, which is now available for public... more »
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Java Kernel: The Final Piece of the JRE Deployment Puzzle is in Place!
As mentioned in previous posts, and in Weiqi Gao's Game Changing Move post, the purpose of Java SE 6 Update N is to solve the JRE deployment and... more »
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Creating a Rails 2.0 Ruby Weblog in 10 Minutes with NetBeans
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Our Ruby weblog tutorial series for NetBeans IDE 6.0 is written for Rails 1.2.5 and uses the ActionController scaffold method. The Rails 2.0... more »
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Slick - 2D Game Library based on LWJGL
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Slick2D is a simple set of tools wrapped around the LWJGL OpenGL binding for Java.
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Best of Game AI for Developers in 2007
Over the last 7 months on the blog at AiGameDev.com, there have been lots of great articles — almost enough to fill a book! Here’s a selection based... more »
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How to Configure Apache to Serve SVG/SVGZ the Right Way
Explains how to set the correct headers via .htaccess or httpd.conf/mime.types.
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Java Version Penetration (November 2007)
A snapshot of Java's version penetration. Take a look if you aren't sure which version to use for you next applet.
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Firefox - :first-child, :only-child, and :last-child Broken Since 2001
While these pseudo classes appear to work they are in fact known to be broken since 2001. Hardly news, but it was a shocking surprise for me.
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10 Bits of Feedback for Google's Android SDK - Slick and First Impressions
The article outlines the ups and downs of porting huge portions of the Slick renderer (a lwjgl based 2d game lib) over to the Android SDK.
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A New Can of Worms - SVG as Website Graphics
A proof of concept layout which utilizes Opera 9.5's new SVG features (using SVG via background-image and <img/>). A firm grasp on CSS and basic... more »
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Ken Russell on the new Java Plugin
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After we posted about the news that Sun has rewritten the browser Java plugin system, we got a chance to sit down with the lead engineer on the... more »
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Java's Game Changing Move: The First Step
Sun (through the jdk6.dev.java.net project) released an early access version of Java SE 6 Update N (aka The Consumer JRE) two days ago. [...] That's... more »
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Using jMonkey Engine with the Scala language
I'm currently trying to learn the scala language. Scala is the next big thing in language design - it is a mix between object oriented and functional... more »
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Delayed Applet Loading
3 different methods (and their side-effects) to load applets at some later point. This avoids the unwanted VM startup surprise, which most visitors... more »
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