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 | Jul 17, 2011 | Links
A relatively quiet week in the world of JavaFX, but hopefully you can find a link or two of interest! 🙂 Let’s jump into them…
That’s that for another week. As always, feel free to email me links you want included – I appreciate the hints you all give me! Anywho, catch you all again in a weeks time 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Jul 14, 2011 | Interviews
It was my pleasure to recently come across the GroovyFX project, which works to make building JavaFX 2.0 user interfaces easier and more powerful from the Groovy language. I decided to reach out to the two main developers to see if they would kindly answer some questions relating to this project. Fortunately they agreed, and so here today we have the first interview on FX Experience. Enjoy!
Please introduce yourselves
Jim Clarke: I have been working with JavaFX for several years and am co-author of JavaFX-Developing Rich Internet Applications.
Dean Iverson: I work at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute where I work with various rich client technologies. Â I was an early adopter of JavaFX and a co-author of Pro JavaFXÂ Platform.
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by Jonathan Giles | Jul 10, 2011 | Links
Welcome to another week of JavaFX links! 🙂 Let’s get right into it.
- There was a new beta build of JavaFX 2.0 put out this week – b34 includes drag and drop support, as well as a Java to JavaScript bridge for WebView among the numerous bug fixes, API tweaks and performance improvements.
- The Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group is planning another meeting this week, but I’m not sure what the topic is. It is on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6:00 PM at the Oracle Conference Center.
- Tom Schindl has released e(fx)clipse 0.0.2, which includes improved CSS editing support, as well as the start of better JavaFX integration into Eclipse in the form of JavaFX library specification in projects, a ‘New JavaFX Project’ wizard and JavaDoc integration.
- jojorabbit4 has updated his ComboBox control to allow for more customisation.
- Narayan Gopal Maharjan has put up a AutoFill TextBox with support for as-you-type filtering and auto-complete.
- The GroovyFX project is continuing to get noticed – this week hideaki-t put up a custom browser using GroovyFX to demonstrate the power of GroovyFX and JavaFX.
I hope you all found something useful in this weeks link roundup. Keep up all the hard work folks, and I’ll be back in a weeks time to link to you all over again.
by Jonathan Giles | Jul 3, 2011 | Links
July already?! I know I say this often, but man, where does time go?! Also, happy Independence Day to the American readers out there (even though it’s technically not until tomorrow in your part of the world).
There are a heap of links, so lets jump right into it! 🙂
That’s all for another week. I hope you all found something useful! Until next week – keep up the hard work folks 🙂
by Jonathan Giles | Jun 26, 2011 | Links
Here we go again, with this weeks batch of links. Thanks to the people contacting me with links and praise – it’s all much appreciated 🙂 Anyway, let’s get into things…
- There is an Oracle webcast coming up on the 30th of June that is titled ‘The Code of Enterprise Success Begins with JavaFX 2.0‘. It features Jai Suri and Jasper Potts talking about JavaFX 2.0, and might include some interesting news and demonstrations.
- Tom Schindl has announced e(fx)clipse. The 0.0.1 release is minimal but no doubt useful for JavaFX 2.0 developers choosing to use Eclipse: it introduces a CSS editor that supports the JavaFX -fx extensions.
- Jim Connor has blogged about translating a JavaFX Script application to JavaFX 2.0.
- Stephen Chin continues to present the ‘JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages‘ talk at conferences. He has just posted the slides for his talk at Jazoon, where he covers using JavaFX 2.0 with Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom and Visage.
- Speaking of alternate languages, probably the one leading the pack is the GroovyFX project, which obviously provides improved Groovy support. They’ve just put up a heap of documentation that demonstrates how to use the JavaFX APIs using GroovyFX – be sure to check it out!
- Artem Ananiev has covered how to size your windows in JavaFX 2.0 easily.
- Seyhan Basmacı has blogged about building a JavaFX 2.0 sample application, which features a login form as well as a TableView, communicating with a remote server.
- jojorabbit4 has blogged about creating a custom JavaFX 2.0 ComboBox control. For what it’s worth, I spent a few hours this past weekend creating one as well, which may turn up somewhere sometime soon. I even posted an image or two to tease its current state (which is: unfinished, but much better than nothing).
- Laurent Nicolas has blogged about creating a simple JavaFX 2.0 slide presenter.
- Narayan has written about masking in JavaFX 2.0.
That’s all for this weeks folks. Keep up the blogging and exploring of the Java desktop APIs. Catch you in a weeks time! 🙂