Sun Microsystems had most kindly invited Silicon Valley Sleuth to attend Java's 10th birthday party on the company's Santa Clara campus in Silicon Valley. I love clowns and ponyrides, so I grabbed my camera and battled the rain to join several hunderd people who currently work or in the past have worked on the programming language in celebration of Java's first decade.

In this first post: James Gosling, Senior Vice President  at Sun and the creator of Java, daringly volunteered for the dump tank. What is a dump tank, you ask? You throw a ball and if you hit the target... just watch the video to see what happened.

Some would consider it a carreer limiting move to play this game however...

PS. The video seems to be working fine in OS X and on Win XP in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Linux seems to be having issues with the embedded video. Please let me know in the comment section below if there is anything I can do to help Linux users, or if you have problems with your configuration.

Click here to download the video

23 Apr 2005