Another World for GBA… for Free!
Eric Chahi and FoxySofts just decided to offer us the best possible gift… a free and legal ROM of Another World, ported from PC to GameBoy Advance. Another World is the french name of Out of This World, a wonderful and stunning game released in 1990 on Atari and Amiga by Delphine Software. This company [...]
IBM's Glass Engine
While lazily browsing on the web, in found a very interesting UI created by IBM called the Glass Engine. The Glass Engine is used on Philip Glass website to navigate through the author's pieces library. The Glass Engine seems to have been created by IBM Research multimedia labs. Anyway, here is what it looks like:
Each [...]
Using Game Development for Java UI?
I just read the The Java Mobile / Desktop Entertainment Rift topic on JavaLobby.org and it reminds me of one of my internships. It was in Montréal, in Québec, Canada, at Mistic Software, an Atari games development studio. We ported a PC game called Backyard Hockey to the GameBoy Advance. It is interesting to note [...]
"I plead guilty"
Note to the innocent reader: this story has already been published in a JavaLobby newsletter a few months ago. This little rant is mostly harmless but also mostly true.
I have been programming in Java for many years. I have also developed thousands of lines of code in other computing languages like Python, C++ or Visual [...]
Dawn
Every time I read Slava Pestov's blog, I think of Dawn, a small scripting language I wrote for Jext 4 or 5 years ago. Dawn is a RPN language and contains only two keywords, needs and needsGlobal, both of which are used to import modules. When a Dawn interpreter is instanciated by a program, it [...]
NewsFire
I like RSS feeds. I mean, they are damn useful. And yet I hate all the RSS readers I have seen so far. I dislike most of them because they're just ugly. Some are good but too expansive. Hopefully, MacOS X comes to my rescue once again with NewsFire, an elegant, simple and powerful reader. [...]
Desktop Java Live 1.0
Scott Delap, webmaster of ClientJava.com, just released Desktop Java Live 1.0, a cool book about Java desktop applications. I had the chance to read a few chapters before this release and I can assure you this is all good. The book is refreshing as it does not give you another full coverage of boring Swing [...]
The future of source code editing
Download the demo right now :)
As some of you might already know, I have developped a source code editor during a few years. It is a Free Software called Jext. During its development, I always tried to implement the features I needed or the ones I felt I could need someday. Unfortunately I never tried [...]
iTune's like books library
Since Delicious Library exports nice, but somehow rather annoying to handle, CSV files containing all your books, I created a web page on my personal web site to let visitors browse through my books collection.
You can try it live. As you can see, I used iTune's design to create the search panels. You can find [...]
Delicious Library
Sometimes, I stumble upon a nice and lovely application. Delicious Library is one of that kind. Available for MacOS X only, Delicious Library provides an efficient and appealing user interface to take care of your media items. You can use it to catalog and browse your CDs, DVDs, books and video games.
If, like me, you [...]
Progress Components Hacked
Slobodan Celenkovic refactored my indefinite progress demo and extracted components out of it. It is way easier to reuse the rotating stuff anywhere now. Besides, he wrote some demos using these components. Very innovative ways to use an indefinite progress component. I especially like the splash screen.
Keep up the good work Slobodan and please contribute [...]
