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Tuesday Jun 09, 2009
James Gosling Congratulates the BlueJ Team
During his Toy Show James Gosling invited Ian Utting, Poul Henriksen, and Davin McCall from the BlueJ team up on stage to congratulate them on their 10 years of success! (See approximately 7:45 into the Toy Show video below.)
Posted at 08:29AM Jun 09, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Thursday Jun 04, 2009
Birthday Cake for BlueJ
Today at JavaOne we celebrated the 10th Birthday of BlueJ in the Change (Y)our World Playground!
Happy Birthday BlueJ!!! Here's to the next 10 years of success!
Posted at 09:25PM Jun 04, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Wednesday Jun 03, 2009
BlueJ / Greenfoot on Blog Talk Radio
Ian Utting from the BlueJ / Greenfoot team talked with Mary Smaragdis from Sun Microsystems on blog talk radio! Check out the show!
Posted at 10:16PM Jun 03, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Monday May 11, 2009
BlueJ and Greenfoot @ JavaOne
Ian Utting and a couple other members of the BlueJ / Greenfoot development team are coming to San Francisco for CommunityOne and JavaOne! Look for them at the Change (Y)our World Playground!
Also come listen to Ian at the following events:
- Lightning talks at CommunityOne
Monday, June 1st - Community Corner Podcast - Greenfoot and Robotics for Educators
Wednesday, June 3rd at 4:00PM
Bruce Boyes and Ian Utting - Also, the team will be running the Greeps Return contest! More details to come...
Posted at 11:17AM May 11, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Monday Apr 13, 2009
Complete & Updated Greenfoot Manual - Now Available!
On March 31st the Greenfoot team announced that a new, complete, updated Greenfoot Manual is now available!
To view the manual, click here:
Posted at 12:48PM Apr 13, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Tuesday Mar 31, 2009
BlueJ and Greenfoot Open Source News Continues to Spread
Discussions and blog posts about the BlueJ and Greenfoot open source announcements continue to pop up!
Good news!
Posted at 01:56PM Mar 31, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Tuesday Mar 17, 2009
BlueJ & Greenfoot Featured on Java Mobility Podcast
Roger Brinkley interviewed Ian Utting from the University of Kent and BlueJ / Greenfoot development team at SIG/CSE as part of the Java Mobility Podcast series. Roger talks to Ian about both BlueJ and Greenfoot.
Check it out!
Posted at 11:20AM Mar 17, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Wednesday Mar 04, 2009
BlueJ and Greenfoot are now Open Source!
The BlueJ / Greenfoot development team announced the release of the source code for both systems under an open source license!
- Click here to read the announcement posted on the BlueJ website
- Greenfoot License
- BlueJ License
- Download the Greenfoot source code
- Download the BlueJ source code
Posted at 03:33PM Mar 04, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Friday Feb 06, 2009
BlueJ on java.net
BlueJ fans check this out!
A Discussion of the BlueJ IDE with Two of Its Developers: Michael Kölling and Ian Utting – In this interview, Gary Thompson talks with two of BlueJ's developers, Michael Kölling and Ian Utting.
Posted at 10:25AM Feb 06, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Monday Feb 02, 2009
Greenfoot at SIGCSE
We are planning and getting ready for SIGCSE 2009! This year's symposium theme is "Engaging Computer Science Education" and the conference will be in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Sun Microsystems will be attending and we are very excited to have the BlueJ / Greenfoot team joining us! On Wednesday, the day before the conference officially begins, will be BlueJ / Greenfoot Day! Here's come information about this event and the SIGCSE Conference in general:
Posted at 02:05PM Feb 02, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Tuesday Jan 20, 2009
Greenfoot in the Blogosphere
And now for some recent blog postings about Greenfoot!
- Greenfoot in Java
- Teaching object-oriented programming with Greenfoot
- Greenfoot: A Cross-platform Java Game Engine/Editor
- Preparing for Programming (with Greenfoot)
Posted at 07:21PM Jan 20, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]
Friday Jan 16, 2009
The Greenfoot Gallery
The Greenfoot Gallery is a showcase of 2-D scenarios created using Greenfoot. This is a public forum where you can publish, talk about, and share annimations, games, and other Greenfoot projects or programs. It's a great place to check out what people are doing with Greenfoot or share a project you created!Posted at 11:26AM Jan 16, 2009 by Jessica in BlueJ / Greenfoot | Comments[0]