Sweetie: Free icon set
150+ clean and clear icons to use in your nifty web application. They are licenced under a Creative Commons licence, so commercial use is... more »
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Swing can be oh so sweet
If you had any doubts that Swing could deliver truly beautiful apps, then check out Dirk Lemmermann’s latest endeavor below, which is... more »
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Griffon 0.2 released
The Griffon team is happy to announce the release of Griffon 0.2. Griffon is a Grails like framework for writing RIAs on the JVM using... more »
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Is Swing Dead?
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead. [a man puts a body on the cart] Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one. The Dead Collector:... more »
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Vancouver Olympics Chooses JavaFX
Some really great news I’ve had to keep under my hat for the past few months is that the Vancouver Olympics website has chosen JavaFX for... more »
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Griffon 0.1.1 has been released
The Griffon team is happy to announce the release of Griffon 0.1.1. Griffon 0.1.1 – "Lego Griffon II" – is a maintenance release of... more »
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My first Android app - 18 things I learned
Things I learned while writing my first Android game. Old Java / Swing assumptions are a bad idea.
Oracle/Sun Strategy: We will invest heavily in JavaFX (What, me worry?)
Today was a busy interesting day for lots of my fellow geeks (like you, perhaps) in that I found myself listening to two webcasts at the... more »
JavaFX 1.3 Leakage at Devoxx 2009
I love it when Sun employees like Richard Bair and Jasper Potts demonstrate features, and show code samples (in wet concrete of course),... more »
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Forget JavaFX: PulpCore is the real Java RIA
Finally....someone makes applets look better than Flash. And it ain't JavaFX.
The Case for Groovy
Long ago, I would say that the first reason for Groovy was its learning curve. That is still important (see below), but my new first... more »
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Sun setting down on the core Swing
Core Swing is in the process of being retired as a legacy UI technology inside Sun, and last week has marked another sad (yet expected)... more »
GWT – Pros and Cons
I have given GWT a shot couple of years back on the day it was released. I didn’t like it that much then, so I dismissed it and never... more »
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UI Construction with JavaFX
an exposition why even with the help of GroovyFX, your JavaFX UI code profits from some additional separation of concerns
JavaFX Open Source to Include iOS and Android Implementations
We’ve been making progress in getting JavaFX open sourced. I wanted to take a few minutes to include this information on fxexperience... more »
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Java GUI finally looks AWESOME !
Java GUI finally looks AWESOME ! With Java 1.6 Update 10 beta everything in Swing is like SWT and native components. Everything is smooth.
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Why GWT?
GWT is a framework for writing AJAX interactive web applications. I'm going to look at this from the point of view of answering the key... more »
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Griffon 0.1.2 Released
The Griffon team is happy to announce the release of Griffon 0.1.2. Griffon is a Grails like framework for writing RIAs on the JVM using... more »
Programmatically Restart a Java Application
Today I'll talk about a famous problem : restarting a Java application. It is especially useful when changing the language of a GUI... more »
Griffon 0.9.2 released
The Griffon team is happy to announce the release of Griffon 0.9.2! Griffon is a Grails inspired framework for writing RIAs on the JVM... more »
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A Tipping Point for Scala
This past week's BASE meeting was all about IDE support for I was very surprised by this meeting. Not by the findings, if you will, as I... more »
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The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders
In recent weeks and months there has been quite a bit of work towards improving the responsiveness of the Linux desktop with some very... more »
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MiGLayout: The one Java layout manager that does it all
This article introduces the MiGLayout layout manager for Swing applications and shows by example how it addresses different use-cases in... more »
This Is What Happens When You Let Developers Create UI
Deep down inside every software developer, there's a budding graphic designer waiting to get out. And if you let that happen, you're in... more »
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11 Powerful Firefox 3 Add-ons to Replace Standalone Apps
Firefox add-on developers have created some impressive applications that can replace larger, bloated programs. These add-ons can help if... more »
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