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Oracle Propels JavaFX Forward by Enlisting Weaver and Chin
I put out an April Fools’ post yesterday about joining NASA to help with exploration of the big red planet. That post was not far from the truth… all the details about technologies developed by NASA...
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JavaFX and HTML5 at JavaOne India
This past week I had the opportunity to attend JavaOne India, and in my opinion it was even better than last year. I was speaking together with Kevin Nilson, leader of the SV Web JUG, and he...
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DZone Refcard Discussion Thread
The JavaFX 2 Refcard is finally out thanks to the hard work of the folks at DZone. It is intended to be a quick getting started guide for folks new to JavaFX, as well as a quick reference for some of...
View ArticleTaking it Virtual!
I did a presentation at the Agile 2012 conference in Dallas on how to do Agile release planning with distributed teams. This is something that we struggled with at my last company since we had 300...
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JavaFX in Spring Day 1 – Application Initialization
I spoke recently to the Spring Dallas User Group, which was a great audience, and in preparation for the talk I dusted off my Spring Framework skills (with a little help from Josh Long). Even though...
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JavaFX in Spring Day 2 – Configuration and FXML
Welcome to part 2 of the JavaFX in Spring blog series. Yesterday I talked about some of the advantages of using Spring in client applications and showed how to initialize your application. For easy...
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JavaFX in Spring Day 3 – Authentication and Authorization
Welcome to Day 3 of the JavaFX in Spring blog series. In this post we are going to finish off the Customer Data application by taking advantage of the Spring Security APIs on the client. It took a...
View ArticleWhat You Have Been Missing on the NightHacking Tour…
If you haven’t been watching the live stream of the NightHacking Tour, you have been missing out on a lot of geeky fun. I am only 1/3 through the tour route, but I have already had some pretty amazing...
View ArticleJavaOne Latin America Wrap-up
JavaOne Latin America in Sao Paulo Brazil just ended. It was a great event that had a huge community presence, which was responsible for selecting over 50% oft the content, and supported it...
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JavaFX on Raspberry Pi – 3 Easy Steps
The long awaited early access of JavaFX on Raspberry Pi is finally out. This is a great platform for doing small embedded projects, a low cost computing system for teaching, and great fun for...
View ArticleDIY Raspberry Pi Workshop for Kids
I did a successful workshop this past weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp with 50 very enthusiastic future developers. They were ages 10 and up, and everyone in the class got a Java game running on...
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NightHacking with Gosling on the Big Island
I was chatting with James Gosling before his keynote appearance at JavaOne and asked him if he wanted to a do an update on our live video stream from last year. He recommended that rather than doing...
View ArticleNightHacking Gosling Recording Wrap-up
Finished the live stream with James Gosling this morning, and have posted it in all the usual places including the new NightHacking website and the Java Youtube channel. I ended up editing out a few...
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Devoxx 4 Kids Netherlands
I was invited to speak at the Devoxx 4 Kids Netherlands event, so I dropped in right after my Gosling interview. This was literally right after Hawaii. I had only 24 hours at home between events,...
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NightHacking on Devices, Bytecodes, and Kids!
At the upcoming J-Fall event I will be live streaming from the balcony with 3 different special guests. Gerrit will be showing some of his latest hacking with JavaFX on the Raspberry Pi, Jan Kees will...
View ArticleJ-Fall Videos and NightHacking at Devoxx
Next week at the Devoxx conference I will be live streaming from the pavilion with an all-star cast of Devoxx speakers. To register for the live-stream, sign-up here:...
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