Minecraft is the ultimate rags-to-riches stories for game developers, and is a phenomenon unto itself.    I personally enjoy playing it because of the creative aspects, and its also something that my 6th-grader and I can play without having to worry about ESRB ratings. A successful game written in Java?  No kidding? But what particularly interests me [...]

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(April 26, 2010: Updated with newest features) A few weeks ago in Colorado Springs there was a fuel tanker crash on the I-25 Interstate, spilling thousands of gallons of fuel and closing the Interstate for over 5 hours.  Traffic patterns were a complete mess as side-roads became major thoroughfares.  As I drove home from work, [...]

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Making websites that are iPhone-friendly is easy enough, but I recently wanted to make a site that felt like a real iPhone app.  I don’t own a Mac, so building a native iPhone app wasn’t an option. I turned to iWebKit 5.0, a lightweight DHTML toolkit for making websites that look “native” on the iPhone. [...]

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