Friday February 22, 2008 Seapegasus Blog
Friday February 22, 2008 - Fact 1: Sun gives you $1 million (per project $11500 or $2000) to write e.g. an open-source application or NetBeans Plugin.
- Fact 2: Google gives you $20 million to land a robot on the moon and send back data. (*)
Sooo... Does this mean... If I write an open-source lunar lander control software.... Can I win both? >:-D
Check out the NetBeans wiki, there are more ideas what you can implement to win one of the grants. Get together with your hacker buddies and write your project proposal now! The deadline is in 10 days, on March 3 2008.
(*) Google always have to one-up us. Or, in this case, twenty-up. *sigh*
Posted by seapegasus ( Feb 22 2008, 03:37:41 PM CET ) Permalink
Tuesday February 19, 2008 New Spelling and More Aggressive Waitresses
Please stand by for a special announcement by John Cleese(*).
Letter to America
Effective immediately. Thank you for your cooperation! :-P
(*) PS: For completeness' sake, and in case anybody asks, it's a "John Cleese-style" letter, but I don't know who wrote it.
Posted by seapegasus ( Feb 19 2008, 11:33:43 AM CET ) Permalink Comments [2]
Thursday February 14, 2008 Haltet Euch den Termin schon mal frei: Auch dieses Jahr gibt es wieder einen NetBeans Day in Zürich in der Schweiz, und zwar am 23 Juni, vor der Jazoon-Konferenz. Das genaue Programm kommt noch. :)
Posted by seapegasus ( Feb 14 2008, 04:25:40 PM CET ) Permalink
Wednesday February 06, 2008 Have Mercy With Unreal Developers and Gimme a Suite! Please?
Reading this new NetBeans Intro on Forum.Nokia.Com makes me want to continue with my poor little Java ME game... :-) The main reason that it's on hold is just as silly as that I need to clearly define the game resources and rules. Basic stuff like what "cards" you can or cannot play, and how many points you get, I never really defined that, argh... The Java part I can handle. ;)
Another article about the different SDKs is available too, including a video, which for some reason is an exe file, what the hey? Oh I remember, all real Java ME developers use Windows. :( But I, I am only an unreal developer, I just write silly buggy stuff over the weekend, my phone doesn't do Symbian, and I use Linux, bad luck for me. :(
Wasn't there something like a Nokia PC Suite for Linux somewhere, does anybody know what became of it? Because, if you use PC Suite, you can directly send the application from Netbeans to your test phone, via Bluetooth or USB - spiffy. But well, only on Windows, it seems.
Posted by seapegasus ( Feb 06 2008, 06:29:44 PM CET ) Permalink
Friday February 01, 2008 Pix From the NetBeans Chat on Second Life
Since Roumen forgot to take pictures during the Netbeans chat in Second Life yesterday, here is one for you.
As Roumen already mentioned, the chat was well-attended (20-30 people I guess), allthough I had trouble finding the theatre. So I came a bit late but I finally learned the event was at the south end of the island. What you do when looking for an event in a big place: Fly up and around and try to find an agglomeration of people (dots) on the minimap - that's where the action is.
I had to leave after an hour already, I would have liked to stay longer and chat a bit more, but then my laptop ran out of batteries (me and James attended from an internet cafe, and wireless just drains the power). And then, when I left the cafe - I spotted an extension cord behind a corner only 5m away from me - bummer.
Well, when you get on Second Life the next time, don't forget to look for the Sun Microsystems pavillions, the island is pretty stylish! There are hardware and software showrooms, free t-shirts and coffee, a beautiful bay, and even a public sandbox.
