It was my honor and privilage to lead the JavaOne 2014 Community Keynote last week in San Francisco. The breadth and magnitude of projects and skills in the Java community is amazing, and this keynote samples some of it. Grab some popcorn, click the image below, and settle in for some geeky entertainment :-)
Regards,
James Weaver
I had the pleasure of addressing the Chicago Java Users Group and jamming with JUG leader Freddy Guime in the process. The presentation was a gentle introduction to features in Java 8 such as Lambdas, the Streams API, the new Date/Time API, new JavaFX features, and Java Mobile Edition 8. To demonstrate multi-touch and 3D features, I played some blues on the ZenGuitar JavaFX app while Freddy riffed on his real guitar. Please watch the video below to learn about features of Java 8, launched in March 2014.
You can view the slides from the presentation below:
By the way, the folks at SANDEC have ported ZenGuitar to their SimpleFX DSL. Very cool stuff!
Regards,
James Weaver
@JavaFXpert
The JavaFX 8 API, which is bundled with JDK 8, contains a new UI control known as the DatePicker. This video demonstrates how to use NetBeans 7.4 beta to create a JavaFX application from scratch that contains a DatePicker. It also touches on using Java lambda expressions to simplify event handling. In addition, the new date/time API is discussed, and the JFXtras CalendarPicker is demonstrated.
Note: In the video, my statement that "DatePicker extends ComboBox" should have been "DatePicker extends ComboBoxBase".
Regards,
Jim Weaver
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