This version of Bejeweled is available for free as Ajax implementation. And it is a good way to waste your work-time .
Originally thinked to run on iPhone, it is quite good also on Firefox (I haven’t tried on IE).

Enjoy!

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What? Sorry, if you, like me until this morning, don’t know what the hell is this game, here is a piece of the dedicated Wikipedia page:

History

Initially it was created by PopCap Games as a web-based Flash game called Diamond Mine. The game was an incredible success for PopCap, which had only formed in 2000. PopCap created partnerships with well established Internet gaming sites such as Microsoft Zone to host Bejeweled as well. The game has also been ported to other platforms, including Bejeweled Deluxe for Microsoft Windows. Astraware produced Bejeweled for PDAs on the Palm OS, PocketPC and Smartphone platforms. They also released Bejeweled Deluxe on the Xbox as a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game. On September 12, 2006, it was released as one of the first games downloadable from the iTunes Store for the Apple iPod.

Recently, skill games like Bejeweled have been retooled for head-to-head gaming sites like SkillJam and WorldWinner. Players can play in “vs.” games for cash prizes or join tournaments.
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Source, TUAW.

When I began this new experience, during the BootCamp, a Teacher/Employee of Symbian, L.Simpson (yep, “Simpson” ) said:

Wellcome to the Big City!!!

He was referring to the amount of code Symbian OS is made of. But I think it can be applied to everything here. The feeling of being part of something big.

It is Frightful… but Fascinating and Stimulanting too.

Actually, I’m (and I’ll be for a lot) “no one” here… but I see a lot of young guys like me doing important things. And this is the most stimulating thing: I Could!

P.S.: 50 is the effective number of working days, so I excluded weekends and the BootCamp. I joined Symbian on the 16th of April!

Hi Guys.
I’m part of a very little Gooooogle Group (only 5 members) discussing about an interesting project, PySync.

I’ll not go in details (everything is in the “3″ discussions inside the group), but some interesting ideas are “popping-out”.

Share if you have something to.

Much time ago, I have brought a Arrigo Polillo’s book, “Jazz”, considered the Bible of jazz music (Arrigo Polillo, Jazz, Oscar Mondadori, Milano 1997)!

“La migliore storia del jazz in italiano, metodologicamente non aggiornata, ma insuperabile per capacità divulgativa e qualità di scrittura!”

Non ho ancora finito il libro (anche perchè è composto da circa 1000 pagine), ma non potevo perdermi la biografia di due degli artisti che, secondo me, hanno segnato la storia della musica afroamericana del secolo scorso:

ELLA FITZGERALD E JOHN COLTRANE

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Edit: Added a link to the Google Group of the project of Mal about the sync-stuff. It’s name is PySync.

Yesterday I went with a collegue (thank you Serage, particularly for the pictures ) to this event that the Google’s London Office sort twice (or more?) a year. Google London Open Source Jam.

I went for one main reason and other two minors (and… I didn’t know that the most important was another one ):

1. The Topic
2. To take a look to the Google Office in London (very very close to Victoria Station)
3. Free Food (very nice pizza )

(What’s the “main one” is up to you… ).

The Topic

This time, our topic of interest is Mobile.

1. Linux on phones
2. JavaME vs JavaSE vs .NET CF vs Native
3. Browser technologies: AJAX and Flash
4. Building native apps that port to multiple architectures
5. Open platforms (e.g. OpenMoko)
6. Cross platform testing
7. Making the most of mobile hardware (camera, voice, bluetooth, GPS, etc)
8. Phone bling

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