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Three concepts enter a room

June 19, 2008

Three concepts enter a room, each with a point to prove…

“I allow developers to extend VastPark in any manner they want!” exclaims the Plugin, freshly built and bursting with potential. The Widget, hearing this is unimpressed and replies “that may be so my friend, but I can reference you and your brethren to create a self-contained package full of life!” Not wanting to be left out, the Park waits quietly as the Plugin and Widget turn to stare with disdain. “Well...I’ve been around for longer than you both, can reference each of you and am the container most users will use to create their virtual experiences!”

If you’ve managed to cringe your way through the above, you may have noticed a few new members of the VastPark family, Plugins and Widgets. Both of these elements are part of the IMML specification, but haven’t been implemented...until now.

Coming with the next release of the platform in July, Widgets and Plugins will both be present as part of a major rewrite of the entire codebase to improve stability, modularity, performance and memory consumption.

Some of the goodies coming in the next release:
- Major improvement to the Publisher allowing for updating, deleting and previewing existing metadata and content
- Support for publishing Widgets and Plugins
- VastPark Scripting API v1
- Fixed support for streaming sounds
- Across the board performance and memory usage improvements

Editors note: Is your comedic genius better than ours? Leave your attempt at “3 concepts enter a room” in the comments!

Comments

#1. Posted by BruceJoy on June 20, 2008

Can the room be a bar and the concepts be of string?

Ok, in that case:

There were three strings that walked into the bar. They sat down and they didn’t get waited on so the first string walked up to the bar and asked for three beers. The bartender said, “I’m sorry buddy we don’t serve strings in here.” The string walks back to the table and and tells his friends what the bartender said.

“I’ve been here before and gotten a drink, I’ll go get us something to drink,” said the second string. The second sting walks up to the bar and politely asks the bartender for three beers.

The bartender says, “I thought I told your buddy we don’t serve strings in here.” So the second string walks back and and tells his friends what has happened.

The third string says “Oh, I come in here all the time, I know how to order something to drink.” The third sting walks to the restroom where he ties himself up and muffs up his end. He then walks out to the bar and asks the bartender for three beers.

The bartender kind of looks at him weird and says, “You a string?”

“Frayed knot”, he replies.

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