I’m pleased to say that for the last few months that I’m in Canterbury, I’ll be working more closely with the Greenfoot team on some very cool stuffs.
Today, Michael announced the opening of the JavaOne competition. This competition will leverage MyGame, a site put together by James Gosling to support the team’s presentation of Greenfoot at JavaOne. Programmers will be challenged to develop the most compelling entry (based on community voting). I’ll be posting more about it as the contest evolves—just know that your entries could win you a SunSpot (a very cool Java-powered, embedded device), or your participation through voting and reviewing could earn you a Greenfoot T-shirt! (I have two. I’m not sure why, but I have two. They’re awesome. If you don’t have one… well, you’re still kinda cool.)
While it wasn’t possible for them to bring their blogger to JavaOne (humph!), I will be helping develop MyGame into a full-peer application in the BlueJ/Greenfoot pantheon. Our goal is that it will become a long-running service to the Greenfoot community, providing a showcase and rallying point for people writing scenarios in this very cool object world. Along with this, I expect I’ll be keeping up on the Greenfoot blog a bit more (as it will be Justifiable as Work), and will be taking some more time to demonstrate the most recent (and very cool) features included in Greenfoot.
So, watch this space!