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Well, hello everybody. This is a special edition of RE Weekly. We've got one of our, probably

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three times now, right? If you've been on once or three times, multi-guess.

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Three times, five times.

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And I just happened to be walking around here at South by Southwest and I found the Java

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FX lounge. So why don't you introduce yourself?

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So I'm Josh Maronacci. I'm an engineer for Java FX and Sun. And I'm a last minute addition

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to South by Southwest. It's my first time ever. And it's pretty crazy.

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Since it's your first time, what do you think of it? What's your feel for what's going

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on here?

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First thing I have to say is everybody's been very friendly, even the cab drivers. They're

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joking around. It's really cool. Very good beer. I'm very happy about that. And it's real,

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it's a real, just casual hangout atmosphere.

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Right, right.

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So this is our booth, but we call it the lounge because it's really just a bunch of chairs

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and we've got lights and music playing. Just hanging out.

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And you've got little buttons and everything, right?

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And we do have little buttons all over the place, so come by the booth with the buttons.

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So, people coming up, what are they interested in talking with you guys about?

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You know, it's a total mixture. I've got a couple of art students from UT. I've got people

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who are creating startups. I've got people who do video for large websites you've heard

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of. It's all over the map. It seems to be kind of a melting pot.

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And are they just sort of feeling their way around JavaFX or like how, what kind of conversations

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do you end up having?

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Most people just haven't heard of JavaFX. So we explain what it is, how it's built on

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the existing Java platform, adds all these new features. They really like the drag it out

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the browser part. They love that there's one SDK for that for desktop web and mobile.

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Right.

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And the production speed. I have a little demo where I draw something, drop effects, change

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it, flip it again, and all that's easy to see.

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Right. And so, has anyone given you any, like, crazy ideas? Like, I totally know what I could

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do with that.

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Yeah. So, I've been working on this little drawing tool. It's like, you know, this is

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not Illustrator. This is, you drag some shapes out and you just kind of place them around.

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Right.

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And the guy's like, I'm making a website where people will be able to order custom snowboards.

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So, he wants a thing where they can...

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Custom snow globes?

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Oh, right.

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So, it'll be a picture of a snowboard and then all these little symbols and text you can

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type in. You drag the symbols out, resize them, position up, and it shows you, you know, the

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outline so you see what will be on the snowboard and what will be cut off. Then you hit a button,

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it'll go to his site, and you pay your 100 bucks or whatever it costs.

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Oh, yeah.

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And he'll make a snowboard and send it to you.

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Huh. That's interesting. I mean, I remember when there was first internet retail, there was

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a lot of, there was a lot of hope for, like, customized sort of things that you would build

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on the web, and except for a few little things that I can't remember, it didn't really happen

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on a very large scale. So, that's interesting.

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I think the time is now. The cost of custom production is low enough.

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Right.

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So, the tools are there so people can really do customizing beyond just putting, you know,

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text on them.

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So, have you had a chance to check out the rest of the conference?

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I have not yet, unfortunately.

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You just know the Loungeri really well.

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I know the Loungeri really well. We got some new furniture that finally came in last night

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to make a little popier, got our new lights there. I'm really hoping in Java 1, we can

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kind of have that atmosphere on a bigger scale.

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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you should have, like, a JavaFX unconference sort of thing, or JavaFX

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camp. That would be fun.

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Massive lounge.

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That's right.

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We'll build a fort.

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We'll build a fort.

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So, I forget the last time we talked exactly. It wasn't that fort.

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It was after Mobile War Congress.

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That's right. That's right. And so, I mean, has anything interesting been going on since then

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in JavaFX world?

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Not really announcement-wise. One thing we did announce here, and starting in a week, go

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to JavaFX.com/challenge. We have a coding competition. So, the top prize is $25,000, and it starts

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in a week and ends just before Java 1.

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Right.

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I'm one of the judges, but I can be easily bribed without alcohol. So, it should be a

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lot of fun.

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Now, would you say that applies to the other judges, or are you unique in that position?

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Probably does not apply to the other judges. I can't say my vote would be skewed by the

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quality of your beer, but I wanted to see.

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Right, right, right. Well, that's good to hear. So, are you staying until Tuesday for

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this?

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Yeah, I'm here until Tuesday. I wanted to stay for more, but I have some things I have to

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do back home.

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So, the lounge is going to be here until then?

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I think the lounge is here as long as the pavilion is here.

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The convention is going on? Alright. Well, great. Well, thanks for taking a little bit

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of time to talk with us.

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Thanks. It's good talking to you.