What do you want? (in future JavaFX posts :-)

Now that our Pro JavaFX book is available as an Apress Alpha (early access) eBook, and while we're waiting for JavaFX 1.5, I have a question for you: "What kinds of JavaFX posts would you like to see on this blog"?

JavaFX has gained a lot of momentum, and there are now lots of resources available (e.g. javafx.com, JavaFX books, and bloggers' posts).  Please leave a comment on the kinds of posts that you'd like to see.  For example, I asked the same question on Twitter.  Here are a couple of example replies:

"As we get closer to javafx tv and a third consumer of javafx common profile, perhaps articles pointed in the direction of using profiles.  Customers all the time ask me about fine tuning for mobile vs. fine tuning for desktop, graphic assets, and so on..."

"Tutorials, how-to's for building web based mashups, component posts, oh and 1 Java is dead post every month"

By the way, my reply to that one was "Neither Java, nor Paul, is dead :-)"

Here are some additional ideas that I've had, but would really like your feedback so that this blog provides value to you in the area of JavaFX development:

• JavaFX puzzlers.  These could range from simple questions to short coding exercises.  Now that the Pro JavaFX book is available as an Alpha eBook, I could give a free download token to the winner of a given puzzler (as I did with the earlier JavaFX Script book).
• JavaFX tips and tricks.  These would be focused at JavaFX developers who would like to gain exposure to lesser known, but valuable, JavaFX techniques.  Often, a "tips and tricks" post would be an intro and link to another blogger''s post.  For example, I saw a very cool post today from Rakesh Menon about using custom fonts in JavaFX.
• Progressive development of small examples that teach particular JavaFX concepts.
• Juicy JavaFX rumors :-)

So, what Ideas do you have?  Please leave a comment.

Regards,

Jim Weaver
JavaFXpert.com

Comments

[Mass]

Tips & Tricks & Tutorials: This is already well covered

Pick of the week type showcases that demonstrate what JavaFX can do.

News + Rumors. When is Linux support and better tools coming? What's coming in FX 1.5? Which problem spots are being improved...

Interviews with key technical people.

One JavaFX wishlist: better video player. Right now, Flash has the best video playback and Windows Media is second, but both of those have tons of annoying glitches when it comes to full-screen mode, pause&skip controls, stalled downloads, close/cancel functionality, and cross platform support..

[warjan]

I think tips&tricks would be nice to have. Rumors aren't so wanted, but news are.

[Pedro Duque Vieira]

- How to make your graphics more visually appealing.
- JavaFX effects applied to vector graphics. What the various parameters of those effects do.
- Javafx and Java integration tutorials.

Thanks.

[zoomclub]

It would be good to learn more about creating custom nodes. Specifically addressing areas like drawing complex graphic objects where the container may be a node but Java 2D is still used internally to render decorations inside a containing node. This is the whole issue of the balance between retained and immediate rendering models. Also some more on what the effect of having a large number of these nodes may be, in performance as well as memory... as an example of such graphic complexity music notation is one domain where having more knowledge of how to balance JavaFX and Java 2D to create elaborate scenes would be helpful.