James Weaver on Quantum Computing and Java

JavaFX Advent Calendar 2012

Just a note of appreciation to the JavaFX community in Japan for creating the JavaFX Advent Calendar, which is a series of JavaFX articles leading up to Christmas 2012.  Not only did they create the articles, many of the authors translated their articles in English to share with people like me that don't currently read Japanese.  There is a table in the JavaFX Advent Calendar page that has links to all of the articles that were translated to English. 

Some of the articles also have JavaFX sample applications, like the sample e-book reader by a developer whose Twitter name is @tarchan:

Here's an article and game app by a developer whose Twitter name is @Fukai_yas that demonstrates why the Earth wasn't destroyed as the Mayan calendar predicted (^_^)

Please take a look at this series of articles, and join me in thanking these authors and developers for their work!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas,

Jim Weaver 

A Brief Look at the JavaFX JFXtras Project

The JFXtras project, located at JFXtras.org, provides UI controls and other Java objects that developers often need in their day-to-day work, but that are currently missing from JavaFX. This project also serves as a proving ground for controls that may some day make it into the official JavaFX distribution.  The brief video below gives you an introduction to the JFXtras project, and demostrates the UI controls and gauges that are currently available.

 

Regards,
Jim Weaver