Carlos Carrasco

Internal development notes, very slightly cleaned up and commented a week later.

Internal development notes, very slightly cleaned up and commented a week later.

Internal development notes, very slightly cleaned up and commented a week later.

Internal development notes, very slightly cleaned up and commented a week later. - fix colission...

Motivation For the next version of The Spatials I wanted to improve the small missions you get when you visit a new alien world.

The first prototype of what became The Spatials was in full 3D.

In my neverending quest for The One True Way To Serve Web Applications I’ve recently become interested in the concept of continuations and how they can make single-process, asynchronous programming as easy and intuitive as simple blocking calls.

One of the caveats of Comet, and more generally any Ajax-like interaction method for web applications, is the same-domain restrictions on Javascript initiated connections.

One of the many limitations of J2ME is the lack of dynamic code addition on runtime.

Google has stealth-launched Chrome, a new open source browser, by sending a comic to a few journalists.

In my previous post I showed how to implement a simple PubSub server with Twisted for asynchronous Comet updates to a web application.

Jabber and its XMPP protocol pioneered the basic idea behind most contemporary HTTP push implementations.

Nokia has launched the public beta of its new email service.

Developers and the Apple faithful are still arguing about Apple decision to block third party apps from running in the background on the iPhone.

One of the most frustrating areas of J2ME is the callback based, magic-thread-spawning approach that the API adopts for delivery of events and life cycle notifications.

The iPhone is a sweet platform to develop for, but its distribution model for third party code is like a textbook definition of the walled garden.