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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 130,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that […]

I’m with a customer this week in Swiss doing a workshop on e4. Tomorrow is the last day and well most likely will at least take a short look how they can integrate JavaFX 2.x into their e4-SWT applications e.g. to show charts. I just coded up a small example of a PieChart and thought […]

Upon request on the e(fx)clipse forum I’ve invested time for upcoming e(fx)clipse release to allow JUnit-Testing e4 JavaFX applications using Jemmy and JemmyFX. The thing that took most of my time was to understand how Jemmy works and can be started in an OSGi-Env (on MacOS-X it is even harder because there the Jemmy-Robot is […]

JavaFX has properties you can bind to each other to keep them insync. Watch this video for a very minimal example which scales a text by dragging a slider. Now let’s look at the Xtend code used to write this small sample The important lines are: The trick here to make this code not as […]

So there’s a comment on my JDT and JavaFX blog asking if it is possible to have an SWT-Port which uses JavaFX. So its time to present an even crazier thing than using JavaFX to build an IDE! You are right I did already explored what the comment requests. I’ve started a proof-of-concept implementation of […]

What is the result of mixing JDT and JavaFX into one project? Right you get an Java-IDE You don’t believe me? Then watch this short video. Freaking cool but how did I managed to get this work. First all of the whole thing is not a fake. I used different OpenSource technologies to make this […]

Together with the 0.0.14 release of e(fx)clipse. I’ve released 3 step by step tutorials to get you started with JavaFX in Eclipse: Configuring e(fx)clipse: In this short tutorial you’ll see how to configure e(fx)clipse to start your JavaFX experience Createing your first JavaFX-App: In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create and export a JavaFX […]

It was at EclipseCon NA 2012 when I run into Denis Roy and mentionned that there’s a small thing that drives me crazy all time it comes to milestone weeks. The none release builds are not mirrowed and so downloading a build to verify my bugs is takeing for hours because they are throttled. My […]

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 100,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see […]