I just got an email from Sun Microsystems advertising a game they have created for developers to play. It's very Indiana Jones style. You are walking through a temple with and have to collect Sun branded coins, and solve puzzles of source code bugs (figure out how to fix the bug). Those who make it through all 6 levels win prizes, the top prize is $5000. Unfortunately the code riddles are all C++ so I would imagine I won't be able to solve some of them. The intro story was pretty funny. Developers are a forgotten ancient race that developed Sun Studio (a C++ development environment) but knew humanity wasn't ready for it so they kept it secret for millenia. They talk about the power of the sun, etc... there are Sun logos everywhere.
Temple of the Sun
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Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
