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Website Updates Recap (Plus Some Guidance)

October 11, 2010 in Site & Project

On the 9th of October 2010, our new jmonkeyengine.org website had officially been live for a whole month. There were some rough patches and not everyone were too pleased with the sudden changes, but I think the general consensus agrees: It was about time. The big round of tweaks and server optimizations seems to be past us. While we’re taking a quick breather, here’s the lowdown on our new site infrastructure as it stands.

First Month Stats


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A New Online Presence – jmonkeyengine.org

September 7, 2010 in Site & Project

The long since promised jmonkeyengine.com/.org re-design is happening!

The why and when

Up until this point, the jmonkeyengine.com website has been running on a wide assortment of web scripts, big and small. To name a few, there’s Simple Machines Forum, DokuWiki, WordPress, Joomla! CMS. All of these major web systems also had a few extensions installed. On top of that again, to this day we’ve still relied on some handy but rather hard to maintain customizations, especially the site-wide top-menu (Joomla front-end not included).

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Normen joins the 'core' – whatever that is

February 11, 2010 in Site & Project

Please join us in the welcome of Normen Hansen  ‘normen‘ to the jMonkey Engine ‘core team’. This entity, the ‘core’, has yet to be properly detailed in a more public, formal manner. Regardless, it represents the small group of dedicated people whos main goal is to further ‘jMonkey’ and everything it stands for. To reiterate, the team is now as follows, in order of join date.

The ‘Core Team’

Kirill Vainer ‘Momoko_Fan’

Lead Programmer, jME3 Architect
Student at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Erlend Sogge Heggen ‘Sadr

Project Manager, Junior Webmaster
Student at Vancouver Film School (on-hiatus)

Skye Book ‘sbook’

Project Manager, Senior Webmaster
Student at Polytechnic Institute of NYU

Normen Hansen ‘normen’

GDE architect & general integrations
Engineer at a theater in Bremen

We have been in close contact with Normen over the course of three weeks now, getting to know his personality and working habits. Reckon he’ll fit in just fine :)

Normen’s prevalent projects:

jBullet-JME
This jBullet integration coupled with Normen’s overall dedication on the forum is what made him stick out in the first place. This integration will almost certainly find its way into JME3 at a later point, so it’s well worth getting affiliated with.

GDE for JME3
This here is Normen’s pet project, and will probably stay as such for some good weeks ahead. With an influx of novice programmers (e.g. ‘designers’ such as myself) we have seen an increased interest in JME usability. A full featured GDE is just what we need to widen JME’s appeal to all kinds of game designers, without affecting the solid base of technology underneath.

Thanks for listening, and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you think you could be an asset to the JME project.

~ Erlend Sogge Heggen