FX Experience Has Gone Read-Only

I've been maintaining FX Experience for a really long time now, and I love hearing from people who enjoy my weekly links roundup. One thing I've noticed recently is that maintaining two sites (FX Experience and JonathanGiles.net) takes more time than ideal, and splits the audience up. Therefore, FX Experience will become read-only for new blog posts, but weekly posts will continue to be published on JonathanGiles.net. If you follow @FXExperience on Twitter, I suggest you also follow @JonathanGiles. This is not the end - just a consolidation of my online presence to make my life a little easier!

tl;dr: Follow me on Twitter and check for the latest news on JonathanGiles.net.

JavaFX links of the week, August 22

A heap of interesting links this week, so I hope there is something of interest in the links below for you! As always, feel free to email me your links if you think they are worth sharing to everyone else. Let’s get into things!

  • The JavaFX 2.0 beta builds keep on rolling off the production line. This week we have build 40 ready to be tested. From my point of view, the most exciting thing about this release is the performance improvements we’re starting to get into releases. Our specialised performance team are finding memory leaks and CPU hogs, and the engineers are doing their best to get things as performant as possible. In particular, b40 includes a heap of performance improvements to CSS and controls performance. Of course, there are plenty of bug fixes, and the general polishing that is expected of a relatively late-stage beta release. As always, my plea remains: please get it onto your machine and give it a good thrashing. Bug reports and complaints are highly appreciated!
  • Dean Iverson has been busy posting two screencasts about building GroovyFX applications on to his blog. The first screencast is about how to get started with Griffon, GroovyFX, and JavaFX. The second screencast is concluding the basic introduction, introducing features such as binding, automatically generating properties, and keeping your JavaFX user interfaces as succinct as possible using the power of Groovy.
  • We posted an updated ‘Introducing FXML‘ document. This should hopefully answer some of the questions you have.
  • If the technical documentation above isn’t enough, there is also a ‘Getting started with FXML‘ article on the Oracle JavaFX website. This article works through the process of building a simple, example application and gives a good overview of how to work with FXML.
  • And if that documentation isn’t enough, the JavaFX documentation team at Oracle have just posted a blog about all the new and updated documentation that recently got pushed online. They’re doing an excellent job making sure there is a lot of high-quality documentation about JavaFX 2.0, and my hats are off to them, knowing how much the engineers have increased their workload by changing APIs over the last few months.
  • Tom Schindl has released e(fx)clipse 0.0.3, which includes CSS validation improvements for customising the look of your applications.

Have a great week everyone 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, August 15

I know I sound like a broken record…but where does time go?! It’s mid-August already! This past week was a relatively quiet one in the JavaFX world, but despite being quiet there are some very interesting links this week. Let’s get into it 🙂

That’s all for this week – I hope you found a few links useful! Catch you next week with more JavaFX links 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, August 8

Welcome to another week of desktop links. This week there are a number of links, so hopefully there might be some that are of interest to you! Let’s get right in to it 🙂

Catch you all in a weeks time 🙂

JavaFX 2.0 beta build 38 available now

Just a quick post to announce that yet another JavaFX 2.0 beta build has rolled out, this week taking us to build 38. This brings another weeks worth of bug fixes, performance tweaks and necessary API changes (based in no small part on your feedback to our Jira tracker). As always, I look forward to hearing your feedback on this latest release. The best place to discuss JavaFX 2.0 is at the OTN forum, where many of the JavaFX team lurk. However, file your bug reports / request for enhancements directly to our Jira tracker if you want to maximise your chances of being heard!