{"id":225,"date":"2009-03-12T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/12\/games-pulsating-through-one-platform\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:47:00","slug":"games-pulsating-through-one-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/games-pulsating-through-one-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Pulsating Through One Platform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/Sbh7DFEI_JI\/AAAAAAAAD1U\/Gli10hLBcBw\/s1600-h\/development+graph.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;width:187px;height:200px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/Sbh7DFEI_JI\/AAAAAAAAD1U\/Gli10hLBcBw\/s200\/development+graph.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s one that nearly slipped through the (well, at least my) net: according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/org\/press-release\/20090310_pulsar.php\">press release<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/org\/foundation\/\">Eclipse Foundation<\/a> is set to unveil a unified development platform. It is said that some major players, including Nokia, RIM, Sony Ericsson, IBM and Motorola have joined this initiative already though Android and &#8211; predictably &#8211; Microsoft and Apple are notable in their absence.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The concept is oh so simple: a developer goes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/\">site<\/a>, downloads the platform and is ready to rumble. The platform (called Pulsar) would pull together vendor-specific SDKs and off you go. It is clearly geared to tackle the fragmentation of the many, many handsets to be addressed when publishing to &#8220;mainstream&#8221; mobile phones.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At present, it&#8217;s an initiative (as there have been so many) and the presence of industry heavyweights does not always guarantee their success. I am (cynicism coming with age&#8230;) cautious over black box approaches (remember Tira Wireless?). I would love to see this succeed but let&#8217;s see what it comes to&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Image credit: digitalvish.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one that nearly slipped through the (well, at least my) net: according to a recent press release, the Eclipse Foundation is set to unveil a unified development platform. It is said that some major players, including Nokia, RIM, Sony Ericsson, IBM and Motorola have joined this initiative already though Android and &#8211; predictably &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[50,1350,181,182,222,277,294,381,394,434,471,542,561,605],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-eclipse","tag-eclipse-foundation","tag-fragmentation","tag-handsets","tag-ibm","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile-applications","tag-motorola","tag-nokia","tag-pulsar","tag-rim","tag-sony-ericsson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-3D","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}