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Saw this post about our tech session on massively.com this morning. I certainly don't recall hinting about anything NCsoft was doing aside from saying I wish I could tell more about what the team I was on was doing, (but then joked that I couldn't for fear of the lawyers.) Ah well!

More from JavaOne

During our technical session at JavaOne, Rikard and I showed off two videos and two live demos. You've seen the first video already. The second video was a timelapse demonstration of the kind of tool you can build in Java using the jMonkeyEngine, using the NCsoft world-building tool as an example. We received permission to upload that video to YouTube yesterday, which is exciting because it's one of the first real work-related thing we've been able to get out into the public.

You can watch Rikard show off his brilliant skills as a worldbuilder here:

Lunch with James

During the rehearsal for Friday's keynote I was fortunate enough to sit at lunch during the break with James Gosling and Chris Melissinos. We all talked entertainment, games, kids, and yes some jMonkeyEngine. It was certainly fun times and a neat peak into the brain of someone I respect a lot.

Over now

Yeah, it's over now (but I can breath somehow. :)

JavaOne 2008 is over and done with and I'm still standing - despite doing a technical session, a BoF (basically an experts panel,) a broadcast interview and getting onstage for the Friday keynote. I definitely have to thank the guys at Sun who helped make all that possible and really enabled jMonkeyEngine to get into the public eye more than ever. It was very exciting to hear the amount of buzz about jME and Java gaming in general. It was also awesome to finally meet several people I look up to in the industry such as Ken Russel, Sven Goethel, Doug Twilleager, Paul Byrne, and of course James Gosling (and many others, sorry I'm still tired.) Special props to Chris Mellisinos who actually does so much more behind the scenes in getting the various factions to support the idea of Java as a gaming platform than most of you realize.

Once I have had time to recuperate a bit I'll try to write more, but for now, check out the following videos:

1. The jMonkeyEngine 2008 reel
2. My interview with Chris Mellisinos
3. The JavaOne keynote I took part in. (I've got about 8 mins of time on stage starting at 36:20)

Nervousness ensues

Well, JavaOne is fast approaching and it looks like I've got a full plate ahead of me. Rikard and I finished off the last of our demonstration pieces for our technical session this morning, so we're pretty much all ready to go. Yet, somehow my stomach and nerves feel like they are being dipped into alternating pots of ice cold and boiling hot water. Why am I speaking again? I'm a programmer, not a public speaker. :)

Ah well, I'm sure it will go just fine and the week will be past and gone before you know it. Still... excuse me while I go scream.