Last December I did a presentation about JavaFX in Spanish for the Panama Java User’s Group (JUG). This event took place in the city of Chitre, and was a lot of fun to participate in, specially since it gave me a chance to visit my native country. The presentation aimed to serve as an introduction [...]
Filed under: Java, Software Development, Technology, Travel, User Interface on May 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
The other day I saw a Java interface with well over 300 methods (with no inheritance). It’s one of these interfaces that is a single point of entry into a system, and I’m partly to blame. Really didn’t think about how the API should scale, and now that there’s years and years of development [...]
Filed under: Java, Software Development on February 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Videos on Google Android development can be found here;
http://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers
There’s also a Google Group community setup for developers; http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers
As far as “blog reactions” there has been a lot written on the release of this SDK;
Happy Birthday to Android and devphone.com
JavaLobby: Android is out, first looks
Slashdot: Google’s Android Cellphone SDK Released
Comic: Android SDK reactions
Android SDK, Demo [...]
Filed under: Google, Java on November 12th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Google has released the Android SDK on Google Code. The SDK is Java based and runs on Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.8+ and Linux. It requires a JDK 5 or 6 and Ant. Google provides an Eclipse plugin, but there are also instructions for using the SDK without Eclipse or with other IDEs (Jonathan [...]
Filed under: Google, Java on November 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
No, I’m not proposing my brand new Java logo replace the latest one from Sun. As a matter of fact it’s hardly a good logo, and seems more like a book cover, but for some reason a very similar logo (the one mine is based on) was selected as the official one for Ruby.
People [...]
Filed under: Java, Ruby, Software Development on October 30th, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I like Apple, it’s a highly innovative company with great products. I passion for programming was developed as a kid when I had an Apple //c. I own a couple of iPods and wouldn’t mind having one of those cool MacBooks. A few years ago, and at this year’s JavaOne, I noticed lots of [...]
Filed under: Java, Software Development on October 28th, 2007 | 8 Comments »
This is an update to my previous entry “JavaFX Clock”.
I modified the code (JFXClock.fx) to use the JNA library so that the clock can be contained in a transparent window. I also added a right click menu (JFX is really cool for writing menus) so you can pause, resize and exit the application. I [...]
Filed under: Java on May 22nd, 2007 | 27 Comments »
For my next JFX script I slightly modified the clock example Chris Oliver wrote, and added some artwork to it so it looks somewhat like one of the Google desktop gadgets I use. The gadget is very low res, so I decided to make the image files much bigger so users can resize it without [...]
Filed under: Java on May 20th, 2007 | 17 Comments »
From the last couple of posts it seems my blog is turning into a JavaFX blog, but what I really want to do is make sure I capture some important notes from last week’s JavaOne before I forget eveything. One interesting session that surprised me was the “Easy Deployment is Finally Here” by Ethan Nicholas, [...]
Filed under: Java on May 16th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So for my first JFX program, I decided to animate my friend Carlos. He just starts from the left corner and when you click him goes all the way to the right. Nothing to fancy. The main purpose of this little program is just to get my head around the syntax, which is quite [...]
Filed under: Java on May 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
