Monday’s Sundries
Monday, July 16th, 2007This is a tumultuous time for me and by extension, for the Attic. Some good things are happening, others… less obviously good. Bad news was received last week, which when viewed from the appropriate perspective is actually good news. Other things are up in the air, under debate and in suspension until further review. I’m [...]
the “Final” Word on OpenJFX
Thursday, May 10th, 2007JavaFX Script - the heart of JavaFX. A new scripting language that makes it easy to code sophisticated, dynamic, animated user interfaces. JavaFX Script runs on top of Java SE - think of it as making Swing and Java2D easier and more productive to use
JavaFX Mobile - This is a new mobile phone OS that [...]
OpenJFX: Hate it! Love it! Wait For It! Meh.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007If you follow my RSS feed shares, you’ll have noticed quite a few OpenJFX posts float through the stream. As is often the case with geeks, the development community is pretty split over Sun’s new platform.
Some toe the party line and enthuse over the promised capabilities. This camp tends to point to the reference to [...]
Today’s the Day [UPDATED]
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007JavaOne officially launches in San Francisco today (how I wish I was back in that city).
Sun is expected to announce that Java is now an open source development platform, along with their plans to ensure that Java doesn’t become a cl*ster. The Java Developer Kit for Java SE will be released under GPL2.
Although this move [...]
Impressions Of… Things and Stuph
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007There was a huge ado in the coding blog community recently over some terrible and misogynistic comments made about Kathy Sierra, co-creator of the Head First series of books. I haven’t linked to or mentioned it before because I become so unreasonably angry at the bigoted bullying which women in the IT industry are subjected [...]
Coding Ponderables
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006If this code: if(x==1) break; is identical to this code: if(x == 1) break;
And if you were writing an online course which had stressed the importance of using white space to make your code legible…
And if you asked the user a question which required them to demonstrate the proper use of a break in an [...]