This is the official kick-off the "FTGS" project (prounounced "fatigues"), an effort to build an online Game Server for the Full Thrust Space Naval Wargame. It is inspired by (though not directly derived from) the FTJava Play-By-eMail client. FTGS will be developed via an open process, using a public git repository and the ftjava-test mailing list (subscribe).
Space Naval Wargame Project: Full Thrust
I've been thinking for a while about building a simple wargame as a way to try out various new technologies I'm experimenting with. A gamer friend of mine recently told me about Full Thrust, which seems like an ideal candidate. My initial thought is to implement a RESTful back-end using Google App Engine (since it is hosted for free), and perhaps attempt simple front ends in SproutCore, Shoes, HotCocoa, and the iPhone SDK.
Google Chrome: First impressions
[not a real review, just a place for me to take notes] Reasonably fast. Of course, I never use Windows normally, so I don't have a good baseline, but at least the process-per-tab thingie isn't overly obnoxious. They should've called it "Tabby" or something, since that's the overriding design theme The OmniBox is surprisingly useful... Continue Reading →
An Updated Online Bio for Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
I'm Ernie -- though I go by "Dr. Ernie" on the Internet to make it easier to Google me
Bonjour-enabled iPhone Remote.app wins rave reviews
The iPhone Remote control for iTunes and Apple TV is taking the world by storm -- thanks largely to the power of Bonjour. Hat tip to S.C. for the links.
ShoesFest 2008: Getting Started
A big thank you and welcome to everyone who's joining the Shoes community for ShoesFest 2008. On Friday, July 11th and 25th (local times vary), we are encouraging people with or without programming experience to join us in creating and running Shoes programs on Mac, Windows, and Linux so they can email us with feedback about: crashers... Continue Reading →
Free The Geeks: Towards A Liberal “Tech” Education
In this era of declining computer science enrollments â and ongoing concern over the math and science competency of American students â I believe it is time for technical institutions to undertake similar soul-searching. In particular, we need to rethink the historic divorce of science and engineering from the so-called liberal arts â those nominally intended for "free men."
7/11 & 7/25 ShoesFests with Why The Lucky Stiff
why the lucky stiff and friends invite all interested Ruby hackers -- and wannabe hackers -- to join them for two 24-hour ShoesFests: Friday, July 11th noon GMT to Saturday, July 12th noon GMT Friday, July 25th noon GMT to Saturday, July 26th noon GMT The goal of these events is to write and share fun little applications using Shoes, a clever little cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Ruby.
SproutCore JavaScript framework in the news
Go Charles! SproutCore » home SproutCore blog Want to Try Out Apple’s MobileMe? Check Out SproutCore Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore — RoughlyDrafted Slashdot | Apple's SproutCore, OSS Javascript-Based Web Apps AppleInsider | Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web InfoQ: Client-Server Computing: The Future Web? and a little historical... Continue Reading →
Things I wish CompSci courses would teach
1. effective email communication and managing online teams (cf. Open source governance) 2. event-based multi-core programming (cf. Erlang, the Actor model, NSOperation) 3. real-world profiling and optimization (cf. DTrace) 4. data-parallelism via the GPU (cf. OpenCL - Open Compute Language) 5. "holistic" application design (cf. interface-first programming )
iHack, therefore iBlog 
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