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.
by Jonathan Giles | Sep 4, 2011 | Links
Here we go, yet another weeks worth of JavaFX links. There are quite a few interesting links this week – so tuck in and enjoy! 🙂
- This week JavaFX 2.0 beta b42 was released. We’re nearing the general availability release of JavaFX 2.0, so the APIs and functionality are pretty much set in stone now (which means now might be a good time to start exploring JavaFX 2.0 further, as you’re less likely to be burnt by the API changes that have been occurring for the last few months).
- The JavaFX documentation team have blogged about some of the notable API changes that occurred in JavaFX 2.0 b42.
- With the latest JavaFX 2.0 beta release, a number of projects have put out new releases to work against the latest APIs. These include Tom Eugelink has once again updated his popular MigPane project, Jim Clarke and Dean Iverson with GroovyFX, and Bertrand Goetzmann with Grezi.
- Tom Schindl has released e(fx)clipse 0.0.4, which includes a number of new features around CSS and packaging of apps.
- Gerrit Grunwald has released a tool that parses Adobe fxg files and returns JavaFX Groups for each layer of the fxg file.
- Jojorabbit4 has put up part two of his JavaFX 2.0 CSS Styling guide.
- Another presentation of the ‘JavaFX in Alternate Languages‘ talk has come online, this time with Stephen Chin presenting on Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage, at the Jazoon conference.
- Laurent Nicolas has posted an upgrade to his JavaFx 2.0 Presenter application that now take into account Node rotation and scale.
That’ll do for another week I think. Catch you all in a weeks time. Keep up the hard work folks! 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Aug 21, 2011 | Links
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 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Aug 14, 2011 | Links
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 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Aug 7, 2011 | Links
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 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Aug 4, 2011 | News
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!
