Update 11/9/06: The forge is back… finally. They must have been embarassed by my blog post.

If you’re an Mac developer you might have noticed a certain Apple site has been down for upgrades. The site is not even 3 months old, and yet it’s been over a month since the site was operational and yet there is no word of when they plan to bring it back.

 

Looking for Mac OS Forge?

Mac OS Forge is temporarily offline for system improvements.

We regret the inconvenience, and will be back soon. Thank you for your patience.

Posted by kvv on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 1:30 pm

Yeah, I’m looking for Mac OS Forge.. I think I’ve been patient enough Apple. Come on, give us some word.

Apple wants your opinion! Send an email to admin@macosforge.org

Check out macosforge.org to see the above message, or maybe you will be lucky and see something else?

sceneviewer created by John Hurliman. This video shows IBM’s Almaden island. He just implemented a nice new camera that allowed me to zip around the sim for this video ;0  You will have to pardon the somewhat choppy framerate. John’s video came out a bit smoother.

Verily, the answer is to dot!

Scoble posted a video with the Blue Dot crew from their headquarters in Seattle. I actually signed up earlier this month when he last mentioned Blue Dot, but at the time I did not understand why it was so cool. The new entrants into this social tagging sphere have a different take on the whole bookmarking deal.

Sure, del.icio.us lets you bookmark, tag, and share, but it leaves all the content mixing up to you.

Blue Dot’s idea of bookmarking is to share specific items with your network of friends automatically with an easy to manage interface. I don’t even want to look at those horribly implemented advanced services del.icio.us has to offer.

I only have one problem now; I am friendless! Woe is me who is lacking as if the very essence of life! Oh Blue Dot, sweet Blue Dot, what ever shall we do?

AH! EUREKA!

I shall dot this!

Do what is right! Be my friend!

I was fiddling with the libsecondlife sources earlier today and got sceneviwer all nice and workie workie. Check out this comparison shot of Second Life from both clients.

Yeah I know it’s Super teh hotness! The 3D engine is written using Microsoft XNA, which sadly means it’s not cross platform ;0 OH NOES!

But wait! Here is the good news,

Mono.Xna

Description

An open-source implementation of XNA using The Tao Framework for cross-platform rendering through OpenGL and Mono. The Mono.Xna discussion forum is available here.

Status
Mono.Xna is in early stages right now, but the end goal is to allow XNA projects to be compiled and run on platforms other then Windows, without having to change any code.

Mono.Xna, was initiated by libsecondlife’s very own “That guy who does stuff on the mono project,” and aims to make all your cross platform 3D rendering woes a thing of the past.

^{GhettoTags: CLI, XNA, Mono, .Net, sexy, open-standards, open-source, your-mom}

The 3pointD meetup is planned for today at 5PM PST(SL Time). The idea is to get a buch of people who are interested in the metaverse and virtual worlds together all at once and share their thoughts on metaverse sustainability, mash it all up and come up with some good ideas for the future of this emerging medium.

If you plan to attend, be sure to RSVP with Walker Spaight in-world or leave a comment on the 3pointD post about the meetup.

Read on for the tenative schedual from 3pointD

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John Hurliman just posted a great writeup on the recent changes to libsecondlife this past month. Those changes include moving C# 2.0, a new NAnt Build System, super fancy pre-generated code, our new continuous integration server, our plans for NUnit unit tests and more!

Read Big changes in libsecondlife over at libsecondlife.org

It works, but now I need a custom mini editor.