Archives for April 2009

GriffonCast Simple Video Player

In this first Griffon Cast, I show you how to create a simple video player using Griffon in less than 10 minutes. If you'd like to try this on a Mac, see the links below. For those impatient souls, you can download the source code here.

(Version française, ci-dessous.)

Dans ce premier Griffon Cast, je vous montre comment de faire un lecteur vidéo rapidement en moins de dix minutes. Comme j'ai dit dans le video, GStreamer marche seulement sur Linux et quelquefois sur OS X (lien ci-dessous). Pour eux qui sont très impatients, vous pouvez télécharger le source code ici.


GStreamer:

http://gstreamer.org


GStreamer on OS X:

http://gstreamer.darwinports.com/


Summer of Code 2009 Projects Announced

Congratulations to Hjalmar Ekengren and Alexey Lapusta whose projects to implement Groovy on Android and improve Groovy support in Eclipse, respectively, were accepted. MrG will be the mentor for both students.

Pulpcore Word Search Game

I've been playing around with the 2D graphics library Pulpcore making a simple word search game. I have to say it actually made developing an applet-based game really fun. And best of all, it loads lightning fast, it's really too bad that adding Groovy would add several MBs to the download.