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This week has been chock full ‘o activities surrounding the Rational Software Developers Conference. As my About page alludes to, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work around running events in Second Life for IBM developerWorks and IBM Rational, so this year is not different. Alongside the real world conference, we have been running events in Second Life directly related to this year’s theme for the conference, “Where Teams are R-Heroes”.

The week started off with our welcome event on Sunday, where we introduced the heroes in all their glory in Second Life. And now, we still have a few in-world events left for the week. So allow me to invite you all in world to check out what’s going on this week:

The SL URL for CODESTATION is http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%20CODESTATION/130/95/40

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, there will be a Meet the Expert sessions at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm Eastern (New York) with each of the Heroes.

Schedule for 10 am ET :

Monday 10am ET - Fee-Chur: The Developer; who can turn anything into code. “It’s not a bug, it’s a “feature!”

Tuesday 10am ET The Gatekeeper: The Release Manager; who can shift shapes to deal with everything internal and external; from bugs to leaks to patches to infinity and beyond!

Wednesday 10am ET The Time-Inator: The Project Manager; who can bend the time-space continuum… sometimes

Schedule for 2pm ET:

Monday 2pm ET R-Tek: The Architect with the power to grok future applications just by drawing a picture on a napkin

Tuesday 2pm ET Hawkeye: The Analyst; whose super A-ray Vision lets her see opportunities hidden in complex problems

Wednesday 2pm ET Gotcha: The Tester; with the power to clone herself to meet impossible deadlines…

So, if you’re an IBMer, and you’re in the know about IBM’s Hackday events, you’d know that the results were recently posted.  And the winner in the Virtual Worlds/Augmented reality category was none other than my Project WiiSpark application.  Thanks to Peter Yim, my colleague, for all of his work contributing to the project.  And, thanks to all those who voted.  Since this is an internal IBM event, there’s not much I can show about the other winners.   However, we here at IBM developerWorks are planning to to a full-on YouTube video explaining the app, and the technologies used to pull it off.

Again, thanks to everyone for participating!

OK so, there’s this thing at IBM where a bunch of coders get to together around the world on one day and come up with something novel and new to create- it’s called IBM Hackday.

Peter Yim, my co-worker from the not-so-infamous Wii Headtracking at IBM developerworks YouTube videos, decided that we were going to participate in HackDay this year. He came over, we put on a pot of coffee, and we started Hacking away. We created a AS3 application that utilizes WiiFlash and Papervision3d. Hopefully in a few days, we will be able to showcase it here. Stay tuned.

OK, so you guys get to see me in rare form. My team and I decided to do a few “geeky” videos about our experiences with the Nintendo Wiimote, and a little program called WiiFlash.

Check it out:

We are just getting started with our foray into doing “geeky” videos for YouTube, but if you’d like to see more, head over to http://www.youtube.com/developerworks.