Joystiq posted an excellent roundup of 31 upcoming MMO games. Themes include everything from the standard fantasy and sci-fi fare to wild west, robot, zombie, sex, pirate, and post-apocalyptic themed worlds. Similarly, many of the titles are pretty traditional MMORPG games, but some provide an emphasis on strategy, FPS gameplay, chat and casual gameplay, or other variations. The games that sound most interesting to me are:

Extreme Programming advocate Ron Jeffries recently posted a very good article on the Impact of Overtime on Productivity. Among many other good points, he lists the following indicators that things might be going wrong. I am sure some of these will look familiar to many of you… Is the ratio of test lines to code lines going down? Is the ratio of customer tests to features going down? Is time spent fixing bugs going up?...

I just posted an article about downloadable game content on my Oblivion Blog. It’s not all that Oblivion specific and contains some thoughts on the current state of downloadable content as well as the future direction, so I am linking to it here because I figured that it might be of general interest.

gotAPI.com provides a very nice collection of reference documentation for various languages and technologies, including HTML, CSS, Ruby (incl. Rails), Java, various Java APIs (Struts, etc.), MySQL, Ant, and more. Very handy!

Earlier this week, Apple unexpectedly released their Bootcamp software, which allows owners of Intel based Macs to dual-boot into Windows XP. Bootcamp itself appears to mainly consist of the required Windows XP drivers, whereas a firmware update is actually responsible for enabling the dual boot feature. For the most part, this sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I don’t own a Mac, but I am pretty certain that my next computer (Notebook or Desktop) will be a Mac, and this feature adds extra confidence to first time Mac users that they will be able to continue to run their Windows applications....