Flex 3 vs. Silverlight and Javafx - is Adobe listening?
Adobe's Flex 3 technology is popular now because it's new. But that popularity will fade soon as developers start realizing that they want free IDE to... more »
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Flex Shortcomings
You may have heard a lot of good stuff about Flex lately, it's a very interesting language after all. In this article I decided to take be a realist... more »
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FunFX - Functional Testing of Flex applications
FunFX is open-source and uses Ruby to write tests. Ruby is a simple but yet powerfull language, which makes it possible to write tests that are easy... more »
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Eclipse Plug-In Development - Tutorial
Tiny tutorial which shows how to create a Eclipse Plug-In and how to deploy it.
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Effectuation: The Intro
Today I'm finally going to talk about the third major component of the overall Scene Graph project, and that is the Effects Framework. If you've been... more »
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Swing Application Framework
In case you haven't seen this, I thought I'd spread the word more about the upcoming Swing Framework. I don't think I need to mention that it's... more »
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Poor Man's Multi-VM
The most recent F3 demos on my weblog are run as separate applications in the same JVM. In addition to its own F3 interpreter, each individual demo... more »
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What is the Presentation Model pattern?
Presentation Model is a design pattern used to build desktop GUIs with a clean separation of concerns. One of the most important advantages of this... more »
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RSSOwl - A Java RSS aggregator/reader
RSSOwl is a RSS aggregator and reader that's coded in Java. Not only does it have high levels of functionality, it's also a great example of a... more »
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Live versions of F3 Tesla and Amazon demos (and some others)
Here are the live versions of these demos. They're launched in a prototype F3 "Application Server", which makes it possible to run multiple isolated... more »
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Resizable components in Java Swing
If you are familiar with swing, then swing provides a component called JScrollPane, which can resize any component that is added to it. I do use the... more »
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Why Ruby Doesn't Interest Me
I know it's hard for the Ruby worshipers to understand, but I just don't care about Ruby. Hopefully, this will help them understand why.
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Extreme GUI Makeover: List look-alike with animations
After looking at Romain Guy his Extreme GUI Makeover presentation, I tried to find the source code for the extreme list but couldn't find it. I... more »
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Eclipse RCP Meets Spring: A Perfect Thick-Client Match
Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) is fast becoming the framework of choice for building thick client applications. Get a step-by-step guide to... more »
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The Spring series, Part 1: Introduction to the Spring framework
A very pragmmatic and intuitive article to get started with the Spring Framework.
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What Web Application framework should you use?
Not excited about any Java web application framework these days? Join the club.
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