December 2009
4 posts
WatchOnLive demo - could cloud really get game?
Steve Perlman of OnLive demos the cloud gaming service at Columbia NYC (48min video.)
You plug a box into your TV, or a 1MB plug-in into your low-end PC or mobile device. You subscribe to the service (now in public beta) and rent/”buy” access to games. They lease the very high-end main servers the games run on.
Eighty milliseconds from...
rashitproductnaming.apple.com
People keep speculating that Apple’s tablet will be called the iSlate. Seems a bad idea unless they’re really confident it won’t get delayed.
Wave propagation
So yeah, Google Wave can be confusing, and certainly isn’t sufficiently dense in the average social/thinking circle to have been useful yet to, say, me. But I am impressed by its potential as a platform for prototyping new collaborative workflows. There are already some intriguing demos. I think this is fertile ground and wonder what else might blossom? See, I think this kind of application...
Kata lists
This post contains a collection of thoughts about coding katas.
A fair few are gripes - apologies for this negativity. I should start by saying I do love many aspects of the idiom:
practice as play
solving puzzles
simple examples to unearth core ideas
enjoying exploring multiple perspectives
But (perhaps because with passion comes a desire for perfection) I do find a few aspects of the...