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2011
OSCON Java, The Java Open Source Conference
It is pretty easy to get lost in the media hype around the Java events of the past year. If you follow the headlines, you might believe that all the Java talent left Oracle in a mass exodus, Larry hates open source, or Java is turning into the next COBOL. Regardless of the factual correctness of these headlines, the Java ecosystem is about more than a single company or set of individuals. Java has the largest open-source community of any language in existence!
JavaFX 2.0 at the Chennai JUG
I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the Chennai Java User Group during my trip to India. I was expecting a small group of very devoted Java fans; however, I was surprised to walk into a room of over 200 developers eager to learn about JavaFX 2.0. The venue was very impressive with rows of workstations that we later used for a lab, as well as plenty of seating.
Flash Capability Reporter Sample and Video
The folks at Marakana did a great job hosting the recent Flash Android event, as well as recording and publishing the talk. As a fellow user group leader, I can appreciate the hard work that went into preparing the video, including some fine editing and splicing by Max Walker (the presentation was not as flawless as he made it look!)
Beginning Flash at the SF Android UG
One of my coauthors on the upcoming Pro Android Flash title, Oswald Campesato, and I had the pleasure of speaking to the San Francisco Android User Group. It was a packed audience with around 150 eager Android developers who wanted to hear how they could use Flash on their devices (they were a great audience). Here is what some of them had to say about the meetup: Alec Dara-Abrams Stephen and Oswald gave a very good over view of Flash development on Android. Like a number of other SF Android speakers, packing the hour or so with the right level of technical detail. Thanks to them also for being responsive to audience questions - not so easy I'd guess with 100+ people out there past the lighting for the video. I'm looking forward to following Stephen's blog. Drew Dara-Abrams Stephen and Oswald gave a good overview of the current state of Flash on Android. Unfortunately the Adobe tools and their book won't be out until spring, but I appreciated all the working examples of code that Stephen demonstrated. I'll definitely look for their book when it comes out. Francisco Carretero Looks like an incredibly useful topic for android for giving android that push to the next level. As I promised folks in the audience, here is a copy of the full presentation. Lots of this information was added very recently from different chapters in our book, so it is definitely the latest and greatest source of information on what you can do with Flash on mobile devices:
Visage Android - Cleaner APIs, Cleaner UIs
I have been busily working away at getting Visage ready for developing Android applications. It is a great fit, because Android converts regular Java class files into its special class format, and the Visage compiler happens to generate Java class files. Also, Android is desperately in need of some TLC on their APIs (more on this in a future blog).
2010
SC2 Coders Challenge - Geeks Only Need Apply
I announced the Starcraft 2 Coders Challenge at Devoxx in Belgium. This is a little off topic for my coding blog, but an interesting aside for anyone who enjoys Real Time Strategy (RTS) gaming.
Alternative Languages at Devoxx and Soon JavaOne Brazil
I did my JavaFX Alternative Languages talk at Devoxx and will soon be presenting it at JavaOne Brazil (December 7-9th).
"Flash On..." Group Kicked Off!
We did a double header meeting in the North and South bay to kick off the Flash On group. It was a lot of work to coordinate and present back-to-back meetings, but it all came together. A big thanks to my co-presenter Oswald Campesator, my co-coordinators Keith Sutton and Justin Webb, and also, Nick Turner, from Plug and Play's Mobile Meetup, who did an outstanding job on Thursday evening.
Flash On... Meetup Premiere
I am pleased to announce the Flash On... user group that I am kicking off together with Keith Sutton, Oswald Campesato, and Justin Webb. The focus is Flash on consumer devices from Mobile to Tablet to TV.
New Blog Categories... JavaFX, Agile, and Flash
For those of you following my blog, I have setup some top level categories and matching subdomains to make easier to get just the information you need.
JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages at the SvJugFx
It is kind of ironic, but after a year running I have never spoken at my own user group. In November I am going to break the trend and present an updated version of the JavaFX Alternative Language talk that I gave at JavaOne. You can sign-up for the event here:
Flash Android Development at Code Camp
I haven't talked much about Flash technology on my blog, but we use quite a bit of Flash/Flex for developing enterprise apps at my day job. With the Open Screen Project from Adobe making Flash available on mobile and embedded devices, Flash has become a viable cross-platform toolkit fulfilling a lot of what I hoped JavaFX Mobile would become.
Apropos Launches into the Stratus
Followers of my blog have probably heard about the Apropos project that I built in JavaFX and released as open-source. It is an Agile Project Portfolio Planning tool that I developed for work to help manage our large Agile rollout. Apropos is a perfect application of rich client technology, because it sits on top of the web services exposed by Rally, and provides a higher level of visibility and planning.
Announcing Visage - The DSL for Writing UIs
I am pleased to announce the Visage Language, a domain specific language (DSL) for writing user interfaces.
JavaOne Enterprise JavaFX and JFXtras Presentations
Download Pro JavaFX Platform Presentation as a PDF
JavaFX 2.0 (a.k.a. What Just Happened to JavaFX Script?)
There were some huge announcements at JavaOne today for the JavaFX platform. Overall I think the announcements show some very positive momentum for the future of JavaFX and rich client Java, but there were some casualties...
JavaOne Expert RIA Track
This is going to be a big year for JavaFX and RIA technologies at JavaOne. What does your JavaOne schedule look like this year? Are you going to settle for beginner content, or are you ready for the Expert RIA Track.
JavaFX Your Way: Building JavaFX Applications with Alternative Languages
Petition to Open Source JavaFX
At last night's Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group event, I announced a petition to Open Source the JavaFX Platform. This is a petition from the Java and JavaFX Community directed to the management of Oracle Corporation. The goal of the petition is to increase the viability of the JavaFX platform to the benefit of both the community and Oracle. To the Leaders, Management, and Board of Directors at Oracle Corporation,
Bay Area JUG Round-Up and Stuart's Hands-on JavaFX Videos Available
I am pleased to announce that we have a couple new videos available on the Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group (SvJugFx) video site. Here is a link to the landing page where you can watch these videos as well as all our previous sessions: