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.
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.
iHack, therefore iBlog 