Call Larry Page, get me.

Random people call Google, use the name directory and enter PAGE... who do you get? The lucky employees with dialpad hash collisions with PAGE, e.g. SCHE-ib. 

Hesitate a moment, then guess you should enter a first name? L in Larry will select the 5th in the list and ring them up! That's me! 

"No, sorry, I'm not Larry Page... 
No, I can't connect you with Larry Page... 
No, I don't know his secretary's number... 
Yes, I'm happy that Google is great too..."

Lost my Pictures

Lost my pictures when copying them off camera. ;P Got them back with this! http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ It was free, and I feel compelled to at least link them. ;)

Mark DeLoura joins Google

http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/30023/Mark-DeLoura-named-Googles-Developer-Advocate

GPU accelerated browsers

NVIDIA is excited that browsers are starting to be GPU accelerated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOee9u7kHs

Pixels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcXtT3rZcqg

Quake in a browser

http://ajaxian.com/archives/gwt-quake

Quake in a browser, not using a plug-in!

(Also, NOT an April Fools joke, it's real)

Call For Submissions: Game Development Tools Book

Marwan is a friend of mine, and is editing a book "Game Development Tools". Thanks to the Toolsmiths blog for writing this up nicely, I'll just Ditto it. ;)

 

 

Sent to you by Vincent via Google Reader:

 

 

Call For Submissions: Game Development Tools Book

via The Toolsmiths by Jeff Ward on 3/23/10

I thought I would bring to the community's attention this new book on Game Development Tools that's looking for submissions.  Here's the call:

We invite you to submit a proposal for an innovative article to be included in a forthcoming book, Game Development Tools, which will be edited by Marwan Y. Ansari and published by A. K. Peters. We expect to publish the volume in time for GDC 2011.

We are open to any tools articles that you feel would make a valuable contribution to this book.

Some topics that would be of interest include:

• Content Pipeline tools (creation, streamlining, management)
• Graphics/Rendering tools
• Profiling tools
• Collada import/export/inspection
• Sound tools
• In-Game debugging tools
• Memory management & analysis
• Console tools (single and cross platform)

This list is not meant to be exclusive and other topics are welcome.

The schedule for the book is as follows:

June 30th – All proposals in.
July 15th – Final list of accepted authors are informed and begin articles.
August 15th – First draft in to editor
September 15th – Drafts sent to other book authors for peer review
October 15th – Final articles in to editor
November 30th – Final articles to publisher (A K Peters)
GDC 2011 – Book is released.

Please send proposals to marwan at www.gamedevelopmenttools.com.

Regardless of whether Toolsmiths readers get into the book, it sounds like it could be great.

 

 

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