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Hi All Last week on the 22nd April 2010, JavaFX 1.3 Release was released to the general public. I immediately scanned the release notes and was intrigued by the 3D capabilities. Congratulations to the SDK team for listening to criticism and improvements, mine included. I suggested in an AudioBoo that we needed a Capabilities API […]

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Eclipse Compiler versus the Sun JDK Java Compiler What is the different between the following code fragments for a Java EE 5 style Message Driven Bean? Extract 1 // Code1 @MessageDriven ( activationConfig = { @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName=”connectionFactoryJndiName”, propertyValue=”xygot.mq.web.Q1CF”), @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName=”destination”, propertyValue=”xygot.mq.web.Q1″), @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName=”destinationType”, propertyValue=”javax.jms.Queue”), } ) public class XygotMessageService1 extends AbstractXygotMessageService { } Extract 2 // Code2 @MessageDriven […]

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iPhone GS Froze at Apple Logo Boot Yours truly was forced to restore with DFU and did not have any back up of the original Custom IPSW from November 2009. Luckily I managed to restore a current custom IPSW using PwnageTool 3.1.5. The iPhone is currently jail broken, but still obviously locked and the SIM […]

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JavaFXtm JAVAWUG Moonlander Stage 10 Hi Here is the snapshot version (stage 10)  of the JavaFX Moonlander application, which was originally coded for the JAVAWUG Professional Code Jam #2. The cut of the code was taken around the same time of the JavaPosse Round-Up, towards the end of the week. I demonstrated the game in […]

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JAVAWUG PRO JAM #2: Aftermath : MoonLander JavaFX Game  PRO JAM #2 Tuesday, 26th January 2010 Skills Matter, London, UK   Dear All This simultaneous blog post! On Tuesday, 26th January 2010, your truly hosted a professional code jamming event for the Java Web User Group. It was called JavaFXtm Development with NetBeanstm 6.8. There were […]

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The New Fangled Apple iPad: The Internet’s Best Worst-Kept Secret  Dear All @peter_pilgrim audioBoo: The Internet Best Worst-Kept Secret: The New Fangled Apple iPad https://boo.fm/b93931 ( iPhone Autocomplete ) The Apple iPad was released yesterday (Tuesday 27th January 2010). It was a monumental day for information technology, because the completion and the strategy surrounding the […]

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JavaPosse Live Episode 287 at Devoxx 2009: My Personal Video Well Hey!! This is my personal video recording of the JavaPosse Episode 287 which took place at Devoxx 2009 This is my other nom de plume (de la videographié) London Java News Devoxx 2009 JavaPosse Live Episode 287 from peter_pilgrim on Vimeo. This is Peter […]

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JavaFX is Alive and Doing Very Well, Thank You Very Much Server Side Article: Hard Times for JavaFX Did RIM BlackBerry Kill JavaFX? Silverlight: Universal GUI Toolkit No, yours truly did not hear a loud thud of the Blackberry Developer Conference door closing a fortnight ago [9-12 November 2009]. No, I do not care if […]

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XenonDataGrid M4.0, Nelson Framework *WIP* Hi All I am very happy make the release Milestone 4.0 release of the Nelson Core JavaFX Framework and the Xenon Data Grid Component. You can find the download nelson-core-1.0-M4.jar on Xenonique. I have already uploaded the PDF slides to my talk on XenonDataGrid at Devoxx 2009. The Devoxx Master […]

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Devoxx 2009 Xenon Data Grid Presentation Slides Above all, I strongly recommend the Devoxx conference to any Java beginner in Europe who wants to expand their mind, to get ahead and to stay ahead of the pack. Dear Reader Well Hello Devoxx 2009 POST conference. Here are my presentation slides for my short talk at […]

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   Devoxx 2009 Digital Media Report Above all, I strongly recommend the Devoxx conference to any Java beginner in Europe who wants to expand their mind, to get ahead and to stay ahead of the pack. Dear Reader Well Hello Devoxx 2009 conference and it is Wednesday First, a few words, on the conference itself. […]

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AudioBoo Updates: QCon London 2009: Enterprise JavaFX for the Web Platform Hi All What follows in an extract of an email conversation, which yours truly had with Wylliams Barbosa Santos. Santos lives in Brazil. He is a MSc Candidate in Computer Science, reading at the Federal University of Pernambuco (www.cin.ufpe.br/~wbs). Santos watched my presentation: Enterprise […]