I found an interesting blog post from Robert Green. He developed the game “light racer” for android which had 250k downloads after a development time of 3 weeks (this is what he says on his website). In his blog he explains how he is refactoring this game for a 3D version on android … worth reading:

http://www.rbgrn.net/content/54-getting-started-android-game-development

The game Light Racer 3D v1.2 for Android he is describing in his “online book” is looking like this:

This first revision of the Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features:

• Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
• Support for the WOFF font format.
• Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
• Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Read more on: https://developer.mozilla.org

At 27. October Microsoft has released the PowerShell 2.0!
Microsoft published it togetther with the Windows Management-Framework. Included in the framework are
* Windows Remote Management (WinRM) 2.0
* Windows PowerShell 2.0
* Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 4.0

We will publish a short tutorial, howto update from PowerShell 1.0 or CTP v2/v3 to PowerShell 2.0

You can download the the installation files here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929.

Google announces a navigation module built on google maps. It will work on android 2.0 phones and it will be free! And of course it will work over internet – with all infos available at google (maps). See this video for more info:

Found on … http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-google-maps-navigation-for.html

This video about cloud computing is not really new, but I found it very interesting and kind of funny to watch …

Are you and your business ready for the public cloud?

The new Version of Ubuntu will come soon …

From ubuntu.com: ” … Canonical announced the upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution. Ubuntu 9.10 will be available for free download on Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large … Ubuntu 9.10 features a redesigned, faster boot and login experience, a revamped audio framework, and improved 3G broadband connectivity, all of which contribute to a first-class user experience. …”

I am looking forward to it … check out ubuntu.com

Android 2.0 has arrived … hhmm as I remember the 1.6 release is not too long ago … anyway here is the official google video:

Read more on: http://developer.android.com/index.html

I just found this link … http://phonegap.com/.  ” … PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you. …”

I will check it out. If you have experience with it … leave a comment …

On adobes lab site: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ they state that Flash Professional CS5 will come with a compiler that translates flash actionscript 3 into native iPhone application code. This will open the iPhone for flash cross-plattform development – so at least 3 big mobile platforms will be supported (android, iphone, symbian) and of course flash will still run in any browser that has a flashplayer plugin. So mobile developers – instead of learning J2ME, android SDK, iPhone SDK, symbian SDK and Qt … you might want to have a look at this interesting product and publish your apps on all platforms. At the website you can see a demo video and sign up for the planned beta test version … http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

When updating my CentOS 5.3 to CentOS 5.4, I encountered a problem with updating perl: “…install of perl-5.8.8-27.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386…”. I postet a small howto fix this centos perl update problem …

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