Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Forum Nokia are getting everyone to re-register (or they just want everyone to do their nice survey), so away I go to plough through it and come to the choice of development languages. Someone over there is switched on enough to make sure OPL is there! You know if Carlsberg made programming lanaguges, they’d probably write OPL.
Wireless Watch (via The Register) has an interesting quote in an article based around IBM’s Request for Java to be Open Sourced… But even with these various changes, it remains difficult to get changes implemented through the Java Community Panel and the process has not encouraged the rapid accumulation of applications from small developers as languages like Psion’s OPL do through their open source models. …Okay it’s not Psion’s OPL anymore, it’s yours (and ours) thanks to it being under LGPL, but thanks for the thought. I always wonder what would have happened if OPL had never been dropped, and
Viral marketing is alive and well on the Victoria Line! I’ve still got a numbr of the 16mb MMC Demo disks from ETech, which have Vexed and SameGame preinstalled on the (along with the OPL runtime), and I’ve taken to handing them out to complete strangers. So if you’re on the tube, fiddling with a Series 60 phone, and someone leans over you and hands you an MMC card with the ominous impression that he’s giving you a free game, that’ll be me. It’s not a virus. It’s not going to eat away your time. And you’re not going to
It’s here! Head on over to the OPL Diary for more details!
THose of you watching my other sites will have spotted that I’ve updated my Series 60 puzzler “Same Game.” The main update is we now have an OPL Menu in place, and I’ve added in a choice so you can select 3, 4 or 5 colours of ball. 4 gives a nice gentle game, and 3 is a great quick battle. BUt I still personally prefer having the challenge of clearing 5 colours. Only managed it about 4 times in general play. Next up is an evil addition to Vexed… time to add support for all the level packs so
Congrats to Jim on his first N-Gage Review over at All About N-Gage. Rayman 3 is pretty good, so scoot on over to have a read.
