[Ogoglio-developers] intro and update

[Ian S. <ian...@ac...>]

Howdy!

I thought it was time I introduced myself on this list... I'm Ian Smith, 
the new CTO of Transmutable Networks, the company that brings you 
ogoglio.  Trevor Smith (the CEO, no relation) I go back aways--like to 
the 20th century in a distant galaxy called San Francisco.  Anyway, I'm 
on-board at Transmutable full time now and a bunch of my time is spent 
hacking ogoglio and trying to make it better serve the needs of 
developers that need a web-friendly 3-D infrastructure.

To that end, ogoglio has been "rewhacked" to have a more friendly build 
framework.  It's now built using maven 2 and should be a lot easier to 
work with. I've written a bit of a tutorial about how to do development 
with ogoglio <http://blog.ogoglio.com/2007/09/buildingtesting.html> 
(including but not limited to building and testing) and posted on the 
(new) blog,  http://blog.ogoglio.com

There is also an article on that blog called the Technical Aesthetics of 
Ogoglio <http://blog.ogoglio.com/2007/09/technical-aesth.html> where 
Trevor & I try to explain both how ogoglio works and why it works the 
way it does.  I don't think that article is finished yet, it's probably 
never "finished" in some sense, but it does attempt to articulate some 
things about the design that may have been hidden or unclear.

Of course, we'd love your feedback on either of these articles.  Also 
feel free to post questions/comments about the articles or ogoglio in 
general to this developer list; we monitor it pretty carefully and other 
developers are likely to have the same questions you do!

thanks for supporting ogoglio
ian smith