Microsoft Street Slide

A better way navigate interactive street level map imagery…

Link: Microsoft Research: Street Slide
PDF: Published Paper



Twitter commits Murder to GitHub (Code Deployment Using Bittorrent)

Murder is a method of using Bittorrent to distribute files to a large amount of servers within a production environment. This allows for scaleable and fast deploys in environments of hundreds to tens of thousands of servers where centralized distribution systems wouldnt otherwise function. A “Murder” is normally used to refer to a flock of crows, which in this case applies to a bunch of servers doing something.

Article: Murder: Fast datacenter code deploys using BitTorrent

Code: http://github.com/lg/murder



An Entertaining Behind-the-Scenes Look at Modern Casual Game Artists

A Sub-Select of the Armor Games Team

Left to right: Daniel McNeely, Joey Betz, web developer Larry Root,
John Cooney and intern Danny Yaroslavski

The developers here make perfect, self-contained little game experiences that are addicting for a few minutes, but not all-consuming. For now.

A fun article by Megan Brescini of OC Weekly that exposes a few of the individual motivations within Armor Games.

Full Disclosure: It should be known that I am responsible for the upkeep of the “Submit Game” button referred to in this article.

Article: Little Games Are Big Business at Armor Games – OC Weekly by Megan Brescini