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CON4643 – Contemporary User Interface Design Patterns in JavaFX 2.2 Wednesday, Oct 3, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Hilton San Francisco – Imperial Ballroom B Download the Slide Deck for CON4643 Download the Code bundle for CON4643 The deck contains some extra slides that lists the UI design patterns. There are actually over 100 […]

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TUT5466 – JavaFX 2: A Java Developer’s Guide Peter Pilgrim – Developer Consultant, Independent Contractor Stephen Chin – Java Evangelist, Oracle Tuesday, Oct 2, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM – Hilton San Francisco – Continental Ballroom 1/2/3 Source Code is here temporarily Build it with Gradle A Note to self

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Well now. I got here, San Francisco, on Friday night in one piece for another JavaOne 2012 conference. Sunday, today, is the first day of the conference. What will 2013 bring to the Java community world wide? What sort of technology will become more recognised? I am actually very happy with the way JavaFX has been adopted. […]

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After becoming a little disenchanted with the SBT for Scala, I wanted an alternative that was more logical, simpler to understand and had a better user experience. After all, the whole point of a domain specific language is to make the writing of the script, formulae or grammar to be affordable to the users. A […]

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Here is a complete verbatim build.sbt for ScalaFX that works on MacOS X Lion and Java SE 7 Update 5: Java 7 up to Update 5 already includes JavaFX 2.1. Therefore there is no need to explicitly install in the jfxrt.jar inside a Maven directory. However, I am unsure how to link ScalaFX with JavaFX […]

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ScalaFX build does not work out of the box with SBT. Here is a little bit of extra help if you are new to ScalaFX, Scala and SBT; and are attempting to build the project yourself. The Plugin configuration has the wrong URL, if your set up does not allow GIT as HTTP protocol. Fortunately, […]

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A week ago, the JavaOne 2012 call-for-papers came to a conclusion. Notifications were sent out to the content authors. I submitted three papers and got two accepted.   CON4643    Contemporary User Interface Design Patterns in JavaFX 2.2 CON4648    Scala, JavaFX, Java EE 7 and Enterprise Integration   Just before the confirmations were out, Stephen Chin, […]

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Dear All I have been recording seasonal Audioboo episodes for your delectation. I wish you all Happy Holidays, Merry Xmas, Kwanza, Winter Break, Solstice, and generally wellbeing, health and happiness. Take care. Xmas Boos Episode 1: Scala Adoption Financial Service? Yeah:-/ (mp3) Xmas Boos Episode 2: Aim for Timeless Software Quality over Quantity (mp3) Xmas […]

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Here is my interview with Tori Wieldt of Oracle Tech-Net OTN Java.net . It took place at 2PM on Wednesday 16th, November 2011 at Devoxx. Enjoy. I talked about JavaFX 2.0 release, what developers can actually do with this new Java language API around the scene-graph, media and audio capabilities. In this interview, on my […]

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As my tardiness will allow, I have massive blog entry about Devoxx to write. I seem always write a week after the event, because there is so much happening. This year, I presented with Stephen Chin, a university session, three hours long about what a humble Java engineer needs to know about JavaFX 2.0, especially […]

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I gathered the twitter responses to Stephen Chin and I, for our Devoxx University: A JavaFX Developer Guide on Tuesday. Thank you all for the kind responses, I searched using the term “Devoxx” and “JavaFX” on Twitter.   Public Responses @Jakob48Skov Jakob Skov #Devoxx #JavaFX Mobile = where the action is at, get moving JavaFX! […]

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Over seven weeks ago, I gave a presentation called Progressive JavaFX 2.0 Custom Components at JavaOne 2011 in California. It is now publicly available as audio only. The demos were all captured. Thanks to the Parleys.com and Oracle for processing this session.     Give us a bell via blog comment, twitter, or email, if […]