| From : johnrockefeller.net
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Syrup Dispensers From Hell is coming along quite well. I’ve decided to use the Legend of Sadness base for the game, which plays and looks a lot like a Legend of Zelda title. Instead of having our hero travel into a cave, he’ll be travelling into a breakfast restaurant to save us all from horrid [...] Read Full Story
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The second Guelph Game Jam has just started at the ThreeFortyNine co-workspace. The goal? To make a game in less than a day. We have about 8 hours to design, build, and test our games. Then the last bit of time is spent playing everyone else’s game. I did this a few months ago and [...] Read Full Story
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Staying at the Hotel Victoria in downtown Toronto for the last week with my girlfriend Amy has opened us to a ton of new, fantastic vegetarian and vegan restaurants. Google has helped us find them all, but I wanted to take a second to put together a small list in case you’re downtown Toronto for [...] Read Full Story
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Love these. Download: http://imgur.com/a/bEyov Minecraft was the first entry in my Game of The Day feature on my gaming blog, Gameblaster64. It’s one of the best games to come around in a long time. Shameless plug: if you play Minecraft and you’re looking for a good server to join, come play on mine: Hellblade Mobs. Connect [...] Read Full Story
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Are any of your friends using Bell, Rogers, or TELUS? Check this out! Each of these carriers let you send text messages to people on their network for free, in your browser. Does anyone know if WIND Mobile has something similar? Also, the Rogers one requires you to sign in before you can text. So, [...] Read Full Story
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If there was one website that needed a new UI it was Youtube.com. The site’s design hadn’t changed significantly since it’s introduction in 2005 and it was slow, heavy, and out-of-date. Since the purchase of Youtube by Google, a few new features have shown up from time to time including the ability to sign in [...] Read Full Story
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a huge fan of Dropbox and have been using it for years. I learned about a new service that they’re offering called Dropbox Teams. One would assume that this version of the software would offer tighter integration with teams or some other features to justify the $795 cost [...] Read Full Story
| From : rocky.developerblogs.com
Published to Google
Google’s statically typed Go programming language will soon be available as an experimental feature for website and app developers on the Google App Engine cloud platform. This makes Go the third language supported by Google App Engine after Python and Java.
The Google Code announcement blog post listed an interesting performance note: apps written in Go running on Google App Engine will be compiled and execute natively, which will help boost response speed on sites where the highest... Read Full Story
| From : rocky.developerblogs.com
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For my first real project on Google App Engine, I thought I’d try something simple and small. Quoats, what I’ve decided to call it, is an idea that’s been sitting in the back of my head for a long time.
Quoats is a website app that displays nothing but a single sentence from a random website found on the Internet. The website is random as is the sentence chosen. I guess I’m hoping that it’ll be something like a 21st century Yi Jing in that based on your intention, something profound may... Read Full Story
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WiMax Hitches a Ride on 1000 Taxis in Taipei
People in Taipei on Tuesday will begin to surf the Internet and more in 1000 taxis that have been equipped with Mobile WiMax wireless service. Read Full Story
