JavaFX Innovations: Inline Examples and Screenshots
One of the innovations in the JavaFX toolchain is our new javafxdoc tool. Rather than producing a set of html files like regular 'javadoc' does, we... more »
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Polyglot Plurality
The Pragmatic Programmer says, "Learn a new language every year". This is great advice, not just because it puts new tools into your mental toolbox... more »
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Seam + Groovy + Maven : Nice Simple Hibernate POJOs
Being a long weekend, I had a couple hours yesterday to mess around with my Maven build in the hopes of integrating Groovy and ridding myself of a lot... more »
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Trend Check on Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX
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It’s almost half way into 2008. I think it’s about time to have a reality check on what’s going on in RIA space. Specifically, what’s up with Adobe... more »
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JIDE: Vista Icon Set
Another beautiful icon set from JIDE
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Testing Anti-Patterns: Overspecification
Tests increasingly serve multiple roles in today’s projects. They help us design APIs through test-driven development. They provide confidence that... more »
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Groovy testing and easyb
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A client’s project requires a Java solution to fit their deployment strategy. One specific component of the implementation is an XML-RPC server. Using... more »
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Easy 0.9
The easyb team is pleased to announce the release of easyb 0.9, baby!
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Starting work on Substance plugin for JIDE components
This week i have started working on providing Substance plugin for the JIDE common layer components. The main project page contains the overview... more »
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Swing links of the week: June 29, 2008
Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week:
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shiftzoom.js (zoom and pan functionality)
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shiftzoom.js 1.0 allows you to add zoom and pan functionality to oversized images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code... more »
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Grails - Sparkline Plugin
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Plugin to easily create sparklines in Grails.
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Two New Text Components for SwingLabs
I've just contributed some text components to the SwingLabs project. These components allow text to be laid out in a manner akin to the way desktop... more »
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GraphicsBuilder: Substance based filters
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Continuing with the Substance related additions, it is now possible to use Fractal Flames as texture filters. I was very impressed by Kirill's demo on... more »
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Notes from Eclipse Day at Googleplex
These are my comments and notes after attending the 2008 Eclipse Democamp, Eclipse Day at Googleplex. I have never been to a bigger, more packed... more »
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Don't call it a static or dynamic typed language!
I don't think the use of statically typed or dynamically typed language is particularly useful or informative. I think a much better term is... more »
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GraphicsBuilder: More Shapes!
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Kirill has been busy lately updating Substance with new features, a recent post on his blog shows button shapers in action. Suddenly realized that... more »
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Book Review: Beginning Java SE 6 Platform
I've been reading Jeff Friesen's Beginning Java SE 6 Platform, From Novice to Professional for a couple of weeks now. I thought that David Flanagan's... more »
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Closures for Java
Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage). Oh. My. God. I'm a huge fan of... more »
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Cheap Tricks XV - Static Collections in Java
Here's another cheap trick around reducing the common need for a static block populated list
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@SuppressWarnings
One of the built-in annotations in Java 5 is SuppressWarnings. You can use this annotation on all the available annotation levels (class, field,... more »
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Reading up on Groovy and Grails
The good thing about Groovy is its likeness to Java, and reading Groovy code should pose no difficulty to a seasoned Java programmer who’s taken a... more »
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The busy Java developer's guide to Scala: Collection types
Objects have their place in Scala, but so do functional types such as tuples, arrays, and lists. In this installment of Ted Neward's popular series,... more »
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Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kicks JavaServer Faces
Just for a bit of Friday fun I'd like to share the following variation on those Chuck Norris emails that I received - this time relating to Java.
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Introduction to Grails presentation and example
I gave an introduction to Grails presentation last night at the Charleston SC Java Users Group. I figured I’d post the presentation here for all to... more »
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