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 (for the past few days), September 30

Here’s a special edition of Java desktop links for folks. I thought, given the fact I’ve accumulated a few good links this week already, and that I’ll be super-busy next week and probably won’t be able to share any links, that I’ll get a post out before I fly out to JavaOne. Enjoy 🙂

  • Mean words are being said, battle lines are drawn, and full-on war is nearing…at least in the vicious GroovyFX vs ScalaFX battle for minds and hearts. Stephen Chin started it with his post introducing ScalaFX. He may not have said it, but I’m sure you could tell he was suggesting that ScalaFX was the better choice over GroovyFX….
  • Naturally, Dean Iverson wasn’t going to take this lying down, so he fired up his blog and posted a stinging GroovyFX rebuttal.
  • Backing Dean was Jim Clarke, co-developer of the GroovyFX library along with Dean. Jim has just started a series of blog posts on getting started with GroovyFX.
  • Of course, I’m sure both Stephen and Dean are toiling away on their own implementations. They’ll be meeting head-to-head for a winner-takes-all battle at their JavaOne session next week: ‘JavaFX 2.0 with Alternative Languages’. Unfortunately, this session conflicts with a session I’m giving on ‘JavaFX Data Sources’, but alas, I’m sure you’ll all make the right call.
  • Speaking of the JavaFX Data Sources talk I am co-presenting with Johan Vos, we just put up a website for the related project: DataFX. It is two projects in one: a series of data source adapters to make bring data into JavaFX UI Controls simpler, and a number of pre-built cell factories to make rendering data simpler and richer. Downloads will be enabled next week once we’ve presented our talk.
  • Final warning: next week Peter Pilgrim will be presenting his ‘Progressive JavaFX 2.0 Custom Components‘ JavaOne talk at the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group. It’s on Thursday, October 13, 2011, at 6:00 PM. As per usual, it’ll be live streamed for those that can’t attend in person. For the first time, I’m hoping to finally be able to attend in person this month.
  • Tom Schindl has put up a blog post on ‘How to author FXML‘, which demonstrates some work he has done to make developing JavaFX interfaces simpler in his e(fx)clipse project.
  • In another post, Tom has just announced the release of e(fx)clipse 0.0.6. This release incorporates the FXML authoring support mentioned in the previous link, as well as updated CSS support, improved OSGi bundling support, and the beginnings of runtime components (including layout APIs and OSGi support).

Ok, that’s it for this week. I apologise in advance for any lapses in links postings for the next few weeks. I’ll try my best, but I’m really hoping you folks make it easier for me by emailing me any new and wonderful links you may find. Also, as I said last week, I’m really looking forward to catching up with you all next week at JavaOne. If you see me, please come up and chat – the hallway track is by far the most fun part of JavaOne.

Until next time, have a great week, enjoy JavaOne, and I’ll see you on the other side! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 26

Here we are: one week to go until JavaOne starts. There are a number of links this week, but I’m sure there will be a lot of good news coming in the next few weeks. I’ll try my best to get blog posts out whilst I’m traveling, but I can’t guarantee it. I’m away for three weeks from October 1 to October 23.

For those of you coming to JavaOne, I’m really looking forward to catching up with you – if you spot me please come up and chat! 🙂

Catch you all at JavaOne, or in another links roundup as soon as I can create it! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 19

Another week, and a lot of good links. Not long now until JavaOne, when I’m sure there will be plenty of interesting news coming out. Let’s get into the news.

  • JavaFX 2.0 beta b45 came out this week. Grab it while it’s hot.
  • The JavaFX documentation team is doing a great job of tracking what is changing between beta builds, and keeping you in the loop. Find out what changed in b44 and b45 over at the JavaFX documentation blog.
  • The Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group has a session the week following JavaOne, on Thursday, October 13. This month the presentation is by Peter Pilgrim, repeating a presentation he is also giving at JavaOne. The talk is titled “Progressive JavaFX 2.0 Custom Components“. For the first time, I’ll be able to attend in person, and given that this session talks about custom controls, it’s right up my alley. For those of you who can’t  be there in person, remember it is also live-streamed via UStream.
  • Dean Iverson tweeted that he has released version 0.2 of the Griffon JavaFX 2.0 plugin.
  • The in-development NetBeans 7.1 contains much greater support for JavaFX 2.0, including support for FXML, CSS3, preloaders, and project configuration.
  • Randahl Fink Isaksen, a frequent and valuable reporter of JavaFX 2.0 bugs, has written a post titled “JavaFX eats HTML UIs for breakfast“.

That’s that for another week. Hope you all found something useful! 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, September 5

Here we go, yet another weeks worth of JavaFX links. There are quite a few interesting links this week – so tuck in and enjoy! 🙂

That’ll do for another week I think. Catch you all in a weeks time. Keep up the hard work folks! 🙂