Java

Space Mission FX

Posted by Macca on November 19, 2008 at 3:19 am

For a small while now I have been playing with the preview release of JavaFX and have been quite happy with it. There have been the few bugs here and there and the netbeans plugin still has some ways to go, but hey, its a preview release, its allowed to!
I decided that I would really [...]

"Time" for a change in Java

Posted by Macca on November 18, 2008 at 4:41 am

I have been an enterprise developer for a few years now and I started in c# back in the .NET 1.0/1.1 days. From the get-go, I found c# to be a great language and have been following its progress for some time, and will continue to do so for even longer.
At the moment I’m in [...]

Flippin’ Awesome JavaFX

Posted by Macca on November 12, 2008 at 1:30 am

Update: 28th November 2008Here is a link to the webstart deployment of this sample JavaFX app
I thought that when the inevitably soon release of the JavaFX SDK is released there will very quickly be a large number of UI components that users will be developing and releasing for all the world to use.
JavaFX is extreamly [...]