DR DOBBS ISLAND - The sleepy Saturday morning crowd gathered at 8am SLT around the large IBM and Sun Microsystems signs at Godel, Escher Beach Club to munch on virtual pancakes, fruit, and mixed berry trifle parfait. The group of avatars, much larger than last Spring, mostly bantered in text chat with a few choosing to use voice headsets.
John Zhaoying took the stage midway through the “networking breakfast” to welcome the participants and announce the exciting lineup for the Fall Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0 Summit. "We'll be talking about the opensource grid and extensions to SL, clients and bots," said John, "about metrics and analytics... maybe most exciting, we'll be talking about '3D metaverse platforms that aren't SL' -- looking at some of the other worlds and world-building options out there."
John Zhaoying took the stage midway through the “networking breakfast” to welcome the participants and announce the exciting lineup for the Fall Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0 Summit. "We'll be talking about the opensource grid and extensions to SL, clients and bots," said John, "about metrics and analytics... maybe most exciting, we'll be talking about '3D metaverse platforms that aren't SL' -- looking at some of the other worlds and world-building options out there."
The Saturday program at Dobbs Amphitheater included lectures on Linden Scripting Language (LSL) basics by MikeG1 Schumann and Vyrnox Ming, followed by a Q&A orientation session for newbies led by John and Rissa Maidstone. Video of the first day is available at youTube http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=PollywogPress
MikeG1's excellent presentations covered how to start from scratch to create a first "Hello Avatar" program and then discussed the event-driven programming model, "Events happen, bits of your code react."
Vyrnox's scripting virtuosity and knowledge of data types, lists, and memory was hampered by a lack of course materials due to last minute preparation, but nevertheless comprehensive. "Second Life's LSL supports eight native data types, Floats, Integers, Keys, Quaternion/Rotations, Vectors and Strings" said Vyrnox. He proceeded to provide code examples and discuss the dos and don'ts of lists and memory management.
Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0 Fall Summit continues through September 21st with a full schedule of events, lectures, panel discussions that promises to provide developers, technical marketing, and business people with the latest information on emerging virtual worlds technology. A complete schedule is available at http://www.life20.net/program.php
As John concluded on Saturday morning, "From David Levin, CEO of United Business Media, Steve Weitzner, CEO of CMP Technology -- from the staffs of Dr. Dobbs and the Software Group (many of whom are sneaking around as I speak) ... a big welcome to everyone! I hope you enjoy the show!"
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