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The third RTS game AI competition will be held August 1-8, 2008. On this page you can find descriptions of the game categories, the tournament rules, and a brief ORTS overview.

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Boxes & Arrows has published audio from my Content Page Design Best Practices talk at IA Summit 2008, where I presented a framework for thinking about how to optimize content pages for the dynamic ecosystem of the Web instead of the structured hierarchy o

As you may have heard, the results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced to all the participants late last week. We’re still working on pulling together a more extensive listing for each application that made it into the top 50,

A primeira versão do Silverlight baseava-se muito na utilização de javascript e era muito complexo implementar aplicações que fossem relativamente complicadas.

How many times you needed to display information which was related to the user’s role? In this article we will see how LoginView control help us to deal with this issue.

I do think we’ll adopt some of the cleverer functions of Textile and Markdown, insofar as they remove mundane HTML markup scutwork. But in general, I’d much rather rely on a subset of trusty old HTML than expend brain cells trying to remember the fake-HTM

NCsoft lead core programmer Adam Martin, speaking at ION 08, has addressed the impact that Web 2.0 is making on the videogame industry.

Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library

Each year, 5 of Silicon Valley’s top luminaries convene at the Churchill Club to make 10 predictions for the near future. Prognostications must be specific and non-obvious. Catch the future live now!

This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services, enabling you to embed

If you’re a web developer, you’ve probably heard about XHTML, the markup language developed in 1999 to implement HTML as an XML format. Most people who use and promote XHTML do so because they think it’s the newest and hottest thing, and they may have hea

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The convenience of collaborative polling as well as the ability to quickly distribute interconnected duplicates of surveys are what make this new feature of Quibblo’s particularly useful. Creating a single poll to display on a single website is one thin

Pesquisadores do Laboratório de Divulgação Científica do Departamento de Física e Matemática da Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), da

Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.

Perhaps you run into similar problems with web applications that can be fixed with just a little more HTML. Care to share your experiences?

You can download the latest Lily beta here - it includes the “processing” external.

I think that Brendan would not mind me using his words to describe these technologies: Ivory Towers.

Enfim, juizes não saberiam abrir um Pdf, e as chances deles passarem o documento sem ao menos ler eram grandes. Então o bom samaritano aqui tinha que digitar todo o documento outra vez. E agora que eu não preciso, eu acho um programa que faz todo esse

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Lily’s cross-platform, free, open source and is written in JavaScript. Did we mention it’s fun? Download it, check out the demos or read more about it.

Mais largura de tela significa mais espaço para conteúdo e criação. Ao longo do tempo, desenvolver soluções em 800 pixels de largura (o que de fato são 780 pixels em uma janela maximizada no no Internet Explorer) se tornou um pesadelo para designer

Recently, whenever people ask me “What’s Web 3.0?” I’ve been saying that it’s when we apply all the principles we’re learning about aggregating human-generated data and turning it into collective intelligence, and apply that to sensor-generated (machine-g

You’ve decided to go see a movie and grab a bite to eat afterward. You’re in the mood for a comedy and some incredibly spicy Mexican food.

Citing portability, performance, and inconvenience, the PHP documentation discourages the use of magic_quotes. It’s so discouraged that it’s being removed from PHP V6 altogether, so before upgrading to PHP V6, make sure that all your code avoids using mag

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

RSSmeme, a project that has been described by our own Mark Hopkins as a “less colorful competitor” to the recently re-launched ReadBurner (a service which, we should note, was also purchased in March 2008 by Mashable editor-in-chief Adam Ostrow), j

I think we’d happily dispense with Java if there were a viable alternative. (It’s not as though Sun has given us any support, etc.)

A batalha contra o Flash da Adobe vai definir qual tecnologia vai ser dominar o mercado de RIA (rich internet applications).

I’m trying to use FreeTTS in processing. I don’t really know where to start with the API for FreeTTS.

In a pretty significant move, Reuters is making its news content available to the developer community through the use of a non-commercial API offering, through Reuters Labs.

Pelo que dá pra perceber, o estado pode se tornar um dos principais locais da área no país. Lá também está situada a Hoplon (do Taikodom), que considero a maior empresa do país, com mais de 50 funcionários.

Carl returns to the dnrTV screen this week with his audio processing .NET code. This show focuses on recording and playing raw uncompressed audio data.

inputEx is a javascript framework to build fields and forms.

Show the world your game development skills using Microsoft Silverlight 2 and Silverlight™ Streaming and you could win* an Xbox 360 or other fabulous prizes.

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Criar seus próprios controles é muito fácil com C#. Veremos um pequeno exemplo, passo à passo, criando um controle para exibição/seleção de nome de arquivo.

Of course Resig’s JavaScript port only works with a few browsers, namely Firefox 3, WebKit nightly builds and Opera 9.5 — all beta browsers. Obviously that limits the audience too much for mainstream sites, but if you’re looking for a way to push th

Incredibly, the whole project fits in a svelte 5000 lines — a 10kb compressed download. Now that it’s done, is there any advantage? Well, I can see using it for simple, lightweight JavaScript visualizations in the context of a Web design in which an e

There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it’s used as a general publishin

Just that the beautiful and intelligent readers of CSS-Tricks have a tendency to lean toward jQuery.

Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually desig

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André Furtado é engenheiro de software pela Microsoft Corporation em Redmond/EUA, mestre e doutorando em Ciência da Computação pela UFPE.

Conforme reportagem da Folha Online, existem mais de 1.000 covers de canções famosos feitas com a ferramenta de música do Mario Paint ou sua versão online. Abaixo selecionei uma série de 15 covers muito bons!

One of the best DS games available now has a homebrew Windows counterpart… Meet osu!, the Web 2.0 version of Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents. Here’s a video of osu! in action, featuring the delightful Haruhi song…

Whether you end up being a hardcore player, or a well-respected beatmap creator (or some place in-between , there is something for everybody within the osu! community.

A Trolltech, empresa reconhecida mundialmente por seus frameworks para desenvolvimento de aplicações em multi-plataformas, anunciou no último dia 6 de maio o lançamento da nova versão de seu principal produto, o Qt. Uma das aplicações mais conheci

Nokia’s puzzle-strategy game features parodies of classic game characters.

So, yeah, Processing.js. Big fans of Pjs in this vicinity. Doesn’t do all that Processing does (in the way of: video exports, 3-D, and plugin support) but it’s totally amazing what it does with a few K of JavaScript and a browser. This will wipe out t

The concept for the lamp is based on the archaic hand-lamp, which was used for illumination moving from one room to another at home in the dark.

Durante Social Networks Marketing Summit, rede social distribuirá R$ 6,4 mil em prêmios para três melhores aplicativos brasileiros

Welcome to Opera Dragonfly alpha, the foundations of Opera’s upcoming Developer Tools. Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors – Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone

Traffic from StumbleUpon and Digg is like loading up on empty calories. They fill you up for a while, but they have no nutritional value and leave you hungry for more soon thereafter.

WYSIWYG-editors are often criticized by real coding ninjas for bloated, dirty and not standards-complaint source code they’ve been producing over the last years. However, WYSIWYG-editors have become much better recently. Some of them even produce valid

You’ve reached the Webby Awards Winner’s Gallery. The gallery was designed as a fun and interactive way to see all of the Nominees and Winners from the 12th Annual Webby Awards and includes links to the work and the ability to filter entries a number of w

Um esquema XML, assim como um DTD, define como determinado conjunto de um ou mais documentos XML devem ser construídos.Quais os elementos que podem aparecer e a ordem destes em um documento, quais atributos podem ser associados a um elemento, quais eleme

Find Language Exchange partners from around the world to practice and improve your language skills.

When Mattel released its Intellivision video game system in 1980, Atari knew it finally had a serious contender for the console crown. The Intellivision was more advanced than Atari’s VCS (later known as the 2600) and featured distinctive software, clever

To understand the current climate of game physics, one must first understand a brief history of pivotal games physics technologies and how they have influenced other game developers, as well as current technologies that are still in the process of being i

The MMORPG genre has come so far in these past few decades, it’s almost difficult to believe.

Zebra striping—also known as candy striping or half-shadow—is the application of faint shading to alternate lines or rows in data tables or forms. Examples of websites that use zebra striping include the currency site XE, the CIA World Factbook, and M

In our latest podcast I talk with Peter Mika of Yahoo! Research. Peter is speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose later this month, and we explore the topic of his presentation as well as learning more about Yahoo! bringing semantic tec

Cayra is a free desktop application that lets you represent tasks, ideas, concepts and other items in a graphic, well-structured way. Cayra is based on such visualization techniques, as Mind Mapping and Concept Mapping and allows you to conveniently work

Microsoft XNA Game Studio is a toolset which makes creating great video games for Windows-based PC’s, the Zune digital media player and the Xbox 360 console (with an active XNA Creators Club subscription) easier than ever. This release represents the Co

ASP.NET MVC is going pretty HOT these days so I thought I should post some links to the ASP.NET MVC Videos which are hosted on www.AspAlliance.com.

I have quite a few favourites. Punishment, Cave Story, Flywrench, Poyo, Warning Forever and… Well there’s many more, but I can’t seem to remember them right now.

* Biographic information – user profiles and interests

* MySpace photos

* MySpace videos

* Your MySpace friend’s list

The SNAP Mobile Client SDK provides tools for creating connected mobile games for devices that comply with Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0 and Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) 1.0.

I don’t if someone posted it before, but John Resig has ported processing 2d stuff to javascript using the canvas object. http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

As a sort-of reverse birthday present I’ve decided to release one of my largest projects, in recent memory. This is the project that I’ve been alluding to for quite some time now:

I recently had the pleasure of talking with Tom Crawford, CEO of VizThink, about my Web Form Design book and its relevance for the visual thinking community.

I was at an awesome presentation yesterday at JavaOne of the long tail of Java tools that not many people have come across, which I had to share. So, in no particular order, and with my own emotive comments:

Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.

Mozilla applications gained support for starting with Gecko 1.8 (i.e. Firefox 1.5). The element was originally introduced by Apple for the OS X Dashboard and Safari. Internet Explorer does not natively support , but a page can effectively

Use the arrow keys to walk around the map. Space bar = jump.

What you are seeing is a test using the new Canvas tag to demonstrate its capabilities, Internet Explorer support has recently been added thanks to Google’s workaround code. See also: texture

John Resig has completed 7 months of work to produce a port of Processing, the “programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities”, which aims to teach the basics of computer

This serves as the starting point for exploring the online code for Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. You can see:

A caneta LED da Brando é perfeita para o seu escritório, porque mostra uma mensagem pessoal para os seus amigos e companheiros de trabalho.

Logo abaixo meu caro. Mas antes veja a lista com TUDO o que vem nesse Service Pack

Links and resources from a three hour tutorial presented at XTech 2008.

O BlogBlogs, criado pelo Manoel Lemos, possui um widget 1 milhão de visualizações por dia e 35TB de transferência por mês!

Positivo anuncia lançamento do Mobo, notebook com 1,1 kg e tela de 7 polegadas.
Portátil vai ter versão ‘para crianças’, com teclado à prova de líquidos.

Terça-feira, 06 de Maio de 2008
Por dentro do Google

O Jornal da Globo foi conhecer a sede do Google, onde engenheiros estão inventando o futuro do computador, que deve ficar mais barato, mais rápido e chegar as nuvens.

Na última décad

This tutorial provides an introduction in using the Python programming language to create small programs for different forms of motion graphics, such as algorithmic animations or custom video processing. It focuses mostly around the use of the Python Imag

I recently noticed that of a lot of people are starting to play indie games but don’t necessarily know where to start. So, I decided to make a list of games that the new comers could look at to find indie games.

What is Free Form? Any format goes! But the game should at least run on Win32 platforms.

Almost everything else in the game is generated from publicly available information – the locations of cities, longitudes and latitudes of the various coastlines and country borders of the world are all freely available on the internet. DEFCON was in de

Ataques realizados por hackers não costumam causar dor física à suas vítimas. Mas, em um raro exemplo de um ataque motivado pela malícia e não por dinheiro, hackers bombardearam o site da Fundação Epilepsia com centenas de imagens e links para pá

We are pleased to present the complete content, in PDF format, of the recently published Census Atlas of the United States, the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s.

Não param de zoar o coitado do Padre Adelir de Carli, que já deve esta fazendo companhia a Ulisses Guimarães na cidade perdida de Atlântida. Dessa vez criaram um jogo, onde você tem que desviar o padre de aviõezinhos de papel que tentam estourar os

FlashDevelop is a popular open source ActionScript 2/3 and web development environment.
FlashDevelop seemlessly integrates with Adobe Flash IDE, Adobe Flex SDK, Mtasc, Haxe and Swfmill.

MTASC is the first ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler.

It can compile large number of .as class files in a very short time and generate directly the corresponding SWF bytecode without relying on Macromedia Flash or other tools.

RapidXml is an attempt to create the fastest XML parser possible, while retaining useability, portability and reasonable W3C compatibility. It is an in-situ parser written in modern C++, with parsing speed approaching that of strlen function executed on t

A couple years ago, when Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj got in trouble for some really bad Photoshopping, I fantasized about adapting Evolution Robotics’ object recognition technology and using it to automatically screen news photos for suspicious altera

ying Games is a turn-based, strategy game site. We’re still less than a year old, so the site is still under fairly heavy development. That said, our line-up of games has really grown. So far, we have (deep breath) Amazons, Ataxx, Breakthrough, Cephalopod

Patterns as web services??

click on the flash to activate it, you’ll need to do it after you update the location as well.

Here is a LIVE demo showing how input buttons are rendered in your browser. The ‘Standard’ column will look different depending on your operating system. The ‘+ Border’ column shows the same buttons with a red border added. (This removes the default butto