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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 […]
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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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