The Pac-Man Dossier
I came across The-Pac-Man Dossier the other day. It is fascinating reading. It’s easy to look at a game like pac-man and think… well that would be easy to program – a one screen maze with some ghosts with some fairly basic path finding – what could be hard about that. Well [...]
Iraq
Bad idea to invade Iraq? Could be…
Http Caching
Some very helpful articles on caching found via a colleague at the office:
Cache tutorial
State of Proxy Caching
Expires vs Max-Age
Java Platform Languages
Increasingly there seems to be a move towards language alternatives that function on the Java (VM) Platform. Personally I think the platform itself is the best thing about Java. The language while adequate has never really particularly inspiring. Certainly when I started coding Java it was a big step up from [...]
Found an interesting comment on slashdot about how end user license agreements work under Australian law. If true it sounds like it means that many of the crazy clauses that vendors try and put in their licenses are unenforcable.
Under Australian Law at least, the contract formed by the sale goods has three phases:
1) Invitation [...]
Open Office 2
I’m pleased to see Open Office 2 has now been announced. As much as Microsoft has been obsessing about Linux being a threat I think Open Office has much more potential to really impact their favourite cash cow. OO 1.x was a fine product but 2.0 has a lot more polish. I [...]