My name is Alessandro La Rosa, and I'm a freelance software architect for Mobile and Web platforms. I'm living in Rome, Italy.
Feel free to contact me at: info@jappit.com
A new Betavine widget is now available for free download: Gem Breaker!
Gem Breaker is an addictive puzzle game, where you have to break Gems by picking 2 or more adiacent ones of the same kind. 3 levels of difficulty and 6 kinds of gems to test your skills!
Gem Breaker is available for download here: Betavine Gem Breaker download.
Ball Buster! is a new arcade game widget for the Betavine platform.
Shot balls, connect 3 or more of the same color and make them fall down!
You can download Ball Buster from this link: Betavine BallBuster! download.
Since iPhone’s arrive in Italy seems to be near, here’s a first port of AnimaLogic, one of the first web runtime games!
You can try a first (very beta, as always :)) version here.
I’ve got some fun with my friend Fabio in creating a first game for Nokia Web Runtime.
Since Web Runtime allows building mobile applications with classic web technologies, we’ve used nothing more that html, css and plain-old-good javascript… isn’t it great? 
It’s a very first alpha release with not too much functionalities (local hi-scores and a single game mode), but feel free to take a try 
The main interface was done using classical <a> elements to represent the menu options, but this has 2 important drawbacks, as you can see:
Next release will try to solve those and other issues… meanwhile, we’ll be happy of any kind of feedback about it
Download Web Runtime AnimaLogic
I found your site on faves.com bookmarking site.. I like it ..gave it a fave for you..ill be checking back later
You know, my great passion are games, and here’s a first game-related tutorial
Often in games a nice feature to give to users it the possibility to customize their own character, for example changing colors of the different parts (hairs, eyes, shirt, and so on).
To support this features there are 2 possibilities:
The second options will save you the effort to create these multiple images, and will strip down your JAR size. Also, it will allow you to support a lot more colors.
You can see a simple midlet showing how this can be done with simple code on the emulator page
For the full source code you can visit the Forum Nokia Wiki page: J2ME Customizing Game Sprites Color
Rock, and 
Adobe Flash Lite 7:58 am on September 1, 2009 Permalink
A great puzzle game.
Li Yong Fei
Rock 5:03 pm on September 1, 2009 Permalink
I have seen lot of articles & posts by you in forum nokia but it is today i have visited your website. Believe me i was thrilled by your GoLocal app in vodafone summer of widget competition. And your gem breaker is as amazing as GoLocal. I liked your WiMaps app also. All the best for Gem breaker (My app AllAround is also in this week competition)
pit 5:08 pm on September 1, 2009 Permalink
@Li: Thanks! happy to know you like it
@Rock: Thank you for your appreciation
and Good Luck with your AllAround widget!