17 October 2011 9 comments
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In order to get JavaFX 2.0 to work with a Maven Repository, requires some fudge factor. Because one cannot simply redistribute JavaFX Library, you have to install the libraries manually into a local Maven repository. This is my MSDOS command script to do it: Once you have the local repository set up, once include a […]
16 October 2011 Comments off
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I have completed all three of my Progressive JavaFX 2.0 talks in California, at JavaOne 2011, Silicon Valley Code Camp at Foothills College and Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group at Oracle Conference Center. You get the slides deck from here as a PDF document. The source code is a Maven assembly distribution, a ZIP file, […]
11 October 2011 Comments off
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Just a quickie whilst I am still in California for a while. Tori Wieldt from Java.Net, Java Developer Community Lead at Oracle interviewed Stephen Chin and I on the Sunday 2nd October. Here is the interview and we are in the 1:54 to 4:10 approximately.
10 October 2011 2 comments
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Wow! What a week it has been in California at JavaOne. [FULL VERSION – After the crash of flaming Microsoft Live Writer, I recovered and improved this blog entry.] View from Hotel Nikko upper level looking down on the Mason Street Buzz Cafe, Chill Out Area The biggest news of the event were the […]
06 October 2011 2 comments
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One of the greatest technology leaders that ever lived and probably ever walk this earth. RIP Steve Jobs, Apple Chairman and former CEO https://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ ( Applause ;-D *) Hewlett Packard –> Atari –> Apple –> Next –> Pixar –> Next –> Apple Quotes From Commencement Speech at Reed College “Sorry to […]
05 October 2011 2 comments
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At the JavaOne 2011 conference, the biggest news of the Tuesday came during the Java Strategy keynote, at the Hilton hotel San Francisco. Nandani Ramani had another of those JavaFX demos, which demonstrated JavaFX 2.0 running on a Apple iPad 2.0, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 running Android 3.1 and, get this, a Acer Windows […]
04 October 2011 Comments off
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JavaOne 2011 Impressions The first news is that JavaFX 2.0 has been released as general availability [Alternative download here]. Oracle have delivered on their promised, or may be it was Sun Microsystems vision, to reinvigorate the user interface on the desktop. I think this is a fantastic result, and the entire Oracle JavaFX SDK team […]
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Good Morning from California I am presenting at JavaOne 2011 this year. The first of three talks on my trip to California this year. Today, I will give a talk today on Progressive JavaFX 2.0 in , which is expected to be released very soon. "Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn" – Say it loud! Say […]
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