At one point it was Apple, then IBM was supposed to be it more than a couple of times, well the buyer of Sun ends up being Oracle and I think this is a good thing. First of all (and related to that panel from Watchmen), I was getting a little anxious about all this [...]

I thought it was going to be a bit later, but JavaFX is ready for download. The site has also been redesigned, and to the relief of many (I’m sure) it actually uses the technology it’s advertising (at least for the video). I’m downloading the Netbeans bundle as I write this, so we’ll see what [...]

JavaFX 1.0 will be released tomorrow (Dec 4th). Chris Oliver invites us to judge for ourselves if this project delivers on the promise of an improved user experience for rich clients in the Java Platform. I remember well when this technology was announced at last year’s JavaOne. Chris’ demos impressed the audience, and in his [...]

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 [...]

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 depending [...]

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 [...]