Author: Joey deVilla

And now, some links to entries in the blogs I’m paid to write:

In IndieGameDev:

• Chicks and Joysticks: a white paper on women and gaming written by the Electronic and Leisure Software Producers’ Association.
• Valil.Chess: an implementation of chess using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Beta.
• I Want NPCs in my Chili: How non-player characters add spice to a game.

In The Farm:

• XMLHttpRequest usability guidelines: a set of guidelines on the use of XMLHttpRequest that will help ensure that your users’ experiences are good ones.
• PHP Application Development, Part One — includes a bonus complaint about Dev Shed.
• Cocoa and the Emerging Software Market: The action, as far as Mac OS X development is concern — is where the small companies are.

[via Geeks, Guitars and Guinness] Metroblogging has added the city of my birth, Manila, to its roster. Go on and read about that wonderful, chaotic, glorious mess that is my hometown.

(A pity it’s not hosted on Blogware, but some other, lesser blogging tool.)

You can find more on Manila in its Wikipedia entry and the Philippines in its Wikipedia entry and its CIA World Factbook entry.

Happy 18th (you can buy beer in Quebec and Alberta now!) to Josiah “Si” Adam! Also, happy birthday to Richard “crysflame” Soderberg (who has forgotten more Perl than I will ever learn)!

[via Jamie Zawinski]

You’ve probably seen those adapters which have a 1/8″ stereo audio jack

at one end leading to a cable leading to a cassette-shaped thingy at

the other end. They’re handy for situations in which you have a

portable MP3 player that you want to hook up to your non-MP3-playing

car stereo or the old-school ghetto blaster at the cottage.

Here’s an interesting twist on that theme: Mobiblu’s DAH-220…

The MP3 player is built into the cassette-shaped shell.

The best thing about this player is its interface: it’s shaped like a

cassette and goes into to your cassette player, but it also behaves

like a cassette, user-interface-wise. It has sensors in the spindles so

you can use your cassette player’s “fast forword” and “rewind controls”

to jump from song to song. Want to record? Click the “record” button on

your cassette player, and it records audio data coming into your

cassette recorder.

Clever!