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Entries Categorized as 'Java'

Extending LSL

Date April 15, 2008

LSL, or Linden Scripting Language, was originated by Linden Lab, the creators and owners of SecondLife™. It is remarkably easy to use, and can allow “residents” of SecondLife and OpenSim based virtual worlds to do many marvelous things in these 3D environments. (OpenSim is the open source version of SecondLife’s server software.)
One of the things [...]

Java on iPhone? Maybe…

Date March 15, 2008

According to an anonymous blogger on Sun Microsystems’ website (quoting an InfoWorld article), Sun plans to create a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for the iPhone using Apple’s new iPhone SDK, to be ready in June 2008. Way cool! If that happens, the next step would be a Project Wonderland client for the iPhone….

YAVW - Yet Another Virtual World

Date March 5, 2008

Troy McConaghy just posted a message to the Qwaq MICA group about a brand new Virtual World, Tomorrow Space from a company called Transmutable Networks.
I naturally immediately signed up for an account (katlemieux) and briefly explored this Web-based world, which only opened to the public this Monday. So far, they have two types of “rooms” [...]

Java on Linux, the saga continues…

Date February 29, 2008

Today I finally got around to installing a new version of Debian Linux, this one the “testing” release code named Lenny, because it is supposed to include Java6 JDK, which I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to get to work on the “Etch” release of Debian. Etch only has Java5 JDK, which won’t quite [...]