http://rdews.com Software Development Blog Thu, 07 May 2009 12:25:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What a wonderful thing to hear from a company I have a tremendous amount of respect for. KDice Trainer is featured this week on the App Store and shown as the #2 icon on the front page. It started with an email from Apple the other day: "We love the game, ... http://rdews.com/?p=65 KDice Trainer for iPhone is now on the App Store! I worked on making a fast single player version of KDice that captures all of the elements that make kdice.com popular. You play against up to 6 out of 99 bots and work your way from 100th place up to ... http://rdews.com/?p=63 I just ported chapter 10 from my GWT book to the Java App Engine. I'm very impressed with Google's release today. I had to: upgrade Eclipse to use the new Google Eclipse Plugin and create a new Web Application Project change the code to use JDO instead of Hibernate since this ... http://rdews.com/?p=60 It's not easy to be swayed to try something new, especially from advertising, and definitely if you have to pay for it. Old marketing doesn't really work well even though it still lingering around. I find the only way I try something new is if its recommended by someone I ... http://rdews.com/?p=57 Although Kongregate won, KDice was nominated for the Best Time Sink category at The Crunchies. TechCrunch, a very big blog reporting on technology start up news, put on the event in a style similar to award shows you'd see on TV. Award winners included Digg, Facebook, and Tesla Motors - ... http://rdews.com/?p=56 Google Web Toolkit Applications has been out for around for one month and a couple reviews have come in.  Joseph Ottinger from The Server Side says in his review: Google Web Toolkit Applications is an excellent book, well worth the list price of $49.99 (USD) if you're doing any serious GWT ... http://rdews.com/?p=55 The conference was amazing. The only negative point, and this is the most tiny negative relative to everything else, would be that there was a bit of a pro Java slant at times which alienated developers using many other technologies. I guess its a sure fire way to get a ... http://rdews.com/?p=54 Ajax is a bit of a browser hack.  Isn’t it one of these Web 2.0 trends that are going to eventually fade away into obscurity?  You would think it would be gone by now in the same way we’ve found better solutions for things like frame sets and animated gifs. ... http://rdews.com/?p=53 Google's open social has a web page now and it looks like a fairly straightforward technology to use. I'll definitely play around with it a little bit. Unfortunately it's not quite ready with the social networks. Only a few of the networks listed support it today including Orkut, Plaxo, and ... http://rdews.com/?p=52 The price tag is said to be around $50 million for New York based Gametrust as reported by TechCrunch. In January 2004 RealNetworks acquired Seattle based GameHouse for $34.6 million. In February 2006 they acquired Dutch game company Zylom Media Group fo $21 million. In February of this year ... http://rdews.com/?p=51