OK, I admit it – I’ve been there before, a couple of times: Ordering something cool, just to let the initial sensation and motivation to actually do something cool with it quickly fade away…
The next chapter in this will (hopefully not) be this thing – introducing the DIY Meggy Jr RGB handheld:
Idea: put a couple of these babies next to each other, and have them show the current number of open Jira tickets.
Hmm might be a bit pricey though, at $52 per digit.
Maybe I will write a Chumby widget to display various stats.
It seems the space for 3D gaming via web browser plugins is getting more and more crowded.
Of course, Quake Live created a big buzz (and long waiting queues) when they launched, GarageGames started their InstantAction portal and technology a while ago, same goes for the Unity web player, and now Google released their O3D API.
Still, there is no standard format – I’m not the expert, but for me VRML seems to be dead for over a decade now… (though I just read that it morphed into X3D, but are people actually using that for more than experimental GUIs, like… games?)
Android development seems to gain momentum (whereas everybody already knows that iPhone development is TEH SEX, right? I still have to blog about the iPhone hype at GDC…).
If you are interested, T-Mobile Austria is holding the first Android Developers Day on May 7th, 2009 (including the obvious must-have Web2.0ish barcamp-part).
Wooha, that’s scary in a way:
On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun). The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.
I wonder how this will affect the future of Java (as opposed to IBM)…