My Projetcs / Meine Projekte

A list of programming and related technical writing projects I'm working on.

• 3D game development: I'm eternally in progress writing "the perfect" 3D adventure game. I'm now using the jMonkeyEngine 3 for the Java 3D, and Blender for the models. (2010)

• I'm the main (but not only) writer of the base set of tutorials and documentation for the jMonkeyEngine 3. I keep adding docs to the wiki as new engine features are being implemented. (2010) √

• I helped update the beginner tutorials for jMonkeyEngine 2 from version 2.0 to 2.0.1. (2009) √

• I published an eBook about NetBeans IDE 6. You can buy 100 NetBeans Tips & Tricks here, and also from Amazon for Kindle. Sun Microsystems printed 1000 (or so) copies and handed them out at JavaOne 2008! :-) √

• Planetris -- A simple Tetris clone as a Java Applet that I wrote as homework for a programming class √ (2004)

• RSF, a 3D engine prototype for MacOS in Objective C (Cocoa). This was mostly for me to practice Cocoa and learn the maths and structure behind a 3D engine. (2004) √

• Software project 2002: Speech-controlled Pyramid exploration robot (Team GKR) built with Lego Mindstorms, a dialog system, and programed with a modified Java VM, LeJos. √

  • A local TV station shot a short news report about our speaking Lego robot project, and some of us even went to CeBIT.

• Software project 2001: FrOZ - computational-linguistic text adventure game implemented in Mozart OZ. I was part of the 'game action performing' component team. √

• PHP Photoalbum √