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JavaOne 2010 Part 6: Shout-Outs and SlideShow JavaOne 2010 was great for meeting past acquaintances and starting new networking opportunities. Here is my definition of networking is the art of building an optimal graph of communication channels around yourself that enables you and your participants to achieve goals, solve issues, enhance passion, be inspired; and […]

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JavaOne 2010 Part 5: Is The Glass Half Full? I probably could not be back for the next JavaOne if it takes place in 2nd October 2011, because it becomes more difficult date to justify for family and employee / contractor clients reasons time away for tech; and being that  date is so close to […]

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JavaOne 2010 Part 4: Final Technical Sessions Christopher Oliver 2007 “This [JavaFX] is all going to open sourced eventually.” “I am not hater. I do not anything against Flash. I actually think it was good thing. It allows UI designers to come up with effects compelling applications. You can easily do the same with Java […]

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JavaOne 2010 Part 3: Whirlwind Sessions Christopher Oliver 2007 “This [JavaFX] is all going to open sourced eventually.” “I am not hater. I do not anything against Flash. I actually think it was good thing. It allows UI designers to come up with effects compelling applications. You can easily do the same with Java and […]

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3JavaOne 2010 Part 2: Whatever Happened To Christopher Oliver, Inventor of JavaFX Script? “This [JavaFX] is all going to open to be sourced eventually.” “I am not a hater. I do not have  anything against Flash. I actually think it was good thing. It allows UI designers to come up with effects … compelling applications. […]

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JavaOne 2010 Alternative JVM Languages including JavaFX “Look at the way Microsoft delivers it new products, for example SilverLight, Expression Blend or Visual C# IDE. Every new product that Microsoft produces come with a tool [tooling], that is the Microsoft way and we [Oracle] have to learn how from that [business] model.” Dear Reader An […]

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Stephen Chin’s Petition to Open Source JavaFX Fellow Java Champion, Stephen Chin has created a petition to open source JavaFX technology and the platform. Yours truly has already signed it and commented thereabouts. I have copied my original commentary here. From https://steveonjava.com/javafx-petition/ In the beginning the entire JavaFX platform was entirely available as open source […]

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Mac.Softpedia.com  Apologises about Plagiarism Hi All It is Thursday 13th May 2010 and one day after my JavaFX software was misappropriated. Mac.Softpedia.com sent me an email response today. They have apologised and complied to my request to have the software to their visitors. We are sorry for this misunderstanding and want to thank you for […]

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Plagiarism of JavaFX Developer Warez by Mac.Softpedia.com It is Wednesday 12th May 2010 Tonight, I was watching the Europa League Cup Final: My commiserations to Fulham FC fans, so unlucky and Roy Hodgson deserves all the plaudits, he is a brilliant manager. Well done Diego Forlan for striking the winning goal for Atletico Madrid. It […]

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Hey All Regarding my last blog entry Java Thoughts on Flash (Revisited) , I published four AudioBoo recordings . So if you like listening to audio then please enjoy: Thoughts on Flash Part 1 Thoughts on Flash Part 2 Thoughts on Flash Part 3 Thoughts on Flash Part 4 PS: I accidentally deleted the blog […]

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Java’s Thoughts on Flash Let me introduce myself. My name is Peter Pilgrim, I am a Java Champion, number 91 in fact, British, living in the United Kingdom. I currently work for a top-tier investment bank in the City of London. Although I am not a chief executive officer, I am an experienced developer, designer […]

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Eclipse SDK Platform’s Unterruptible Processing: Damn You All To Hell! Hello Eclipse Development Community! This is absolutely pathetic now. How can Eclipse SDK 3.5.1, also known as Galileo, can be still hanging on a background thread in this flipping year of 2010? This is the second time in 24 hours that I had to use […]