I’ve recently been developing a web-based application (a RIA one might say) and, after initially trying to get it working right in jQuery, I decided to have a go at using ExtJS, a JavaScript library I’ve been meaning to try for a while. Basically, it is a JavaScript library that includes a ton of things for building web application other libraries don’t - not surprising considering it started life as an add-on to YUI. Here is my initial impressions of it, most of which are direct comparisons to jQuery.
Seems like Auran is in a bit of trouble. The developer of the new MMO Fury, as well as classic RTS Dark Reign, is in a bit of financial difficulty and look to be pinning their hopes on changes to Fury (new content and payment model) to get them out of it. Hopefully they do recover - the Australian games industry just keeps running into obstacles and a prominent developer shutting down cannot be a good thing.
Recently I’ve been doing some work on a desktop Java application and I decided to use Eclipse and my IDE. I hadn’t used it for a while (since I did my 4th year engineering project - almost 3 years ago now) and I’m loving all the features and how easy it makes some things.
In case you’ve been living under a rock - or simply don’t care about mobile development - Google recently released a public preview of Android, a new platform for mobile devices built on top of a Linux kernel. You may have heard of it before as it turns out that Android is the thing everyone assumed to be the Google “gPhone”. Well, they’re not releasing a phone but with a ton of device makers on board to use Android (sounds like everyone except Apple, surprise, surprise) I don’t think anyone is going to mind.
If you’ve ever wanted web application programming to be a little more like desktop application programming then have a look at Sun’s experimental Lively Kernel project.
If you do web site testing on a Mac and would like to use older versions of Safari then you now have the option of using Multi-Safari instead of running ten copies of Mac OS X.