Two of my study mates have been working for about a year on a Liero clone called BattleWorms. Right now the first binaries (for Windows) availlable. Some screenshots:

Introduction can be found here. Binaries here and support forums (at keytopic.com) here.

Servlet 2.4 are coming

by Zef Hemel

JavaWorld: “On March 7, 2003, Sun Microsystems released the “Proposed Final Draft 2″ specification for Servlet 2.4. This article explains the differences between Servlet 2.3 and 2.4, discusses the reasons for the changes, and explains how you can take advantage of the new features in 2.4.”

Yay! Article can be found here

Whitespace

by Zef Hemel

Whitespace: “Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren’t there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered syntax.”

http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/