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I visited J-Fall 2008 today, another successful Java conference organized by the NLJUG. J-Fall/J-Spring are the biggest Java events in the Netherlands, it's always fun to visit, see what the latest developments are, what people are doing and how crazy the conference booths are. Although actually the booths were pretty quiet this time, which is ...

Finally, a ship date is set for JavaFX: the new UI toolkit from Sun, designed to go head to head with Flash and Silverlight. December 2nd (2008) is the date that JavaFX 1.0 final will be shipped. Sun will also announce some other news regarding the future of Swing and JavaFX at the Devoxx conference. It's great news that at least this year, ...

Without a lot of buzz, Sun released update 10 of Java 6 yesterday on the download page. Update 10 brings a lot of improvements I've written about before and is the base release for the JavaFX framework. Update 10 also has a consumer download for Windows 64, which is a first (previous Sun Java 64 bit versions were JDK/server vms only). I run ...

Introduction The last few weeks, Jamie Craane and I have been working on a small but usefull tool called Folder Visualizer. The idea of this tool is that it can scan your harddrive and make a visual representation of where the largest directories are located on the harddisk. This is most useful when cleaning up space. The project is available ...

Adobe today launched the Flash Player 10 beta player. See some demo videos on some new features, notably 3D and the "weird text layout" support, which is great because the Flash text layouting really could use a tune-up. Adobe also launched the Open Screen Project, which basically means they want to drop licensing costs in ...

At JavaOne 2007 Sun announced that it would do a Java 6 "refresh" release, geared at improving the Java desktop experience. After several other codenames this release is now named "Java SE 6 Update 10". This release is pretty substantial: A new deployment toolkit that enables correct detection of Java installation version ...

General session Adobe must have been happy with today's general session. We started the morning with another session from Bruce Eckel and James Ward about Flex. I saw most of it already in their university session earlier this week, but all of it keeps impressing me. What I didn’t see yet before is what Flex can do with offline clients ...

Session 1 – Thinking in FlexI started the second day with a session about Adobe Flex, presented by Bruce Eckel and James Ward. I really enjoyed the session, not only because the topic is interesting but also because Bruce and James are very entertaining speakers. The fun thing is that they do actually really present together, instead of both ...

After the big announcement at JavaOne about JavaFX, I thought it’s time to give it a try. There is an Eclipse plugin available that helps creating JavaFX applications. Because I found some people having trouble getting the plugin to run, I wrote this small post to help out. You can use Eclipse’s update function to download the plugin ...