Last weekend was the 25th edition of Ludum Dare, the online 48-hour game development competition. My entry was called Fry Fleshlings Fast, a somewhat constrained effort due to time restrictions (but still a fun effort, of course). I have just published a post-mortem about its development on Ludum Dare’s official blog denoting what went right and […]

Ludum Dare, the 48-hour game development compo, will take place in the week of December 14th-17th. The theme suggestion round has just opened; you can suggest one here.

Chris Heilmann (Principal Developer Evangelist of the Mozilla Developer Network) recently talked at HTML5DevCon San Francisco on HTML5 and the state of the web right now. This is the video of his 1-hour talk: I’d say it is spot on. Overselling and overbuying the state of HTML5 technology – by people either too ignorant to […]

Internet Explorer 10 will be available as a preview release for Windows 7 in mid-November, and then as a stable release for the general public… at, uh, some point later. As we approach general availability of Windows 8, we want to provide an update on IE10 for Windows 7. We will release a preview of […]

Oh, hey, hello there! This text will be replaced by something else when you actually visit the page. It is about browser and browser version identification (or lack thereof) through navigator strings.

Via Pablo Marques, here’s a inspiring video: Valve Software’s Chet Faliszek (one of my favorite persons ever, half of the old but hilarious Old Man Murray website) on How to give yourself a job in the games industry: Despite the title, the video is not just about the game industry – in a nutshell, it’s […]

Microsoft has just unveiled TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like language that compiles to regular JavaScript. It adds a lot of syntactical features to the platform, many of them coming from the ECMAScript 6 (“Harmony”) proposals. It has the pedigree to be great – as Mark Rendle wrote: It’s been known for some time that Anders Hejlsberg […]