Why GWT matters - part II
This article provides a conclusion of reflections on the Google Web Toolkit and suggests why we are finally recouping some of what we lost when we... more »
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Charts zoom / range selector (version 2)
this is the second Flex chart range selector.
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UI is the Killer Feature
Pretty much every tech product, whether a mobile phone or a web app, has a feature list — a big list of things that product promises to do. Companies... more »
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Nimbus UIManager UIDefaults
Nimbus is completely configured by properties in the UIManager defaults table. In my last blog I showed a simple example of how to skin a single... more »
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A Better Applet Experience, Part 2: Poster Frames
In part one of this series I showed you how to set up a loading image, including an animated spinner gif. In this part I'll show you how use a... more »
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JavaFx interview at InfoWorld
Didn't see that one coming too, but yes Paul Krill, editor at large at InfoWorld, interviewed me a couple of weeks ago, precisely after publishing a... more »
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Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2
I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known... more »
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Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D
My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not... more »
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Video: What is Project Nile?
User Experience Designer Jeff Hoffman shows how to use the features of Project Nile, a component of the Java FX SDK Preview Release.
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JIDE 2.3.0 and Mac OSX Icon Set
We are pleased to announce a new JIDE Icon Set for Mac OSX. At the same time, JIDE 2.3.0 release is out. In this release, we introduced a new package... more »
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Java SwingBuilder 0.2 - solving all Swing pain points one at a time
Version 0.2 of the Java SwingBuilder. Java SwingBuilder is an attempt to bring dynamic language-type productivity to Java Swing UI development by... more »
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Print Watermarks with CSS
So, as we all know - CSS has its limitations. If you’ve ever tried to implement printable watermarks with CSS, then you’ve no doubt come across a few... more »
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JavaScript frameworks
Excellent List of famous JavaScript frameworks,
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Flamingo SVG trancoder enhancements
The demo applications for the Flamingo JRibbon component make heavy use of the SVG icons to make sure that the icons can be scaled without losing... more »
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Flamingo ribbon component: latest additions and future plans
The last entry on Flamingo component suite talked about addition of contextual task groups, dynamic changes to in-ribbon galleries and reworked... more »
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Create beautiful form fields using CSS and images
This tutorial will teach you how to create a good looking rounded corner forms by using the beauty of css and images. This is not confined to just... more »
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Swing links of the week: August 24
Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during the last three weeks
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From Pain to Gain: Swing and the NetBeans Platform in the Real World
Developing rich desktop Java applications has been historically a painful experience; but now you have new advanced Swing components and a complete... more »
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The footprint of the Air Ajax runtime
Executing an Air application has a non negligible runtime cost. I did a few tests to see how much memory and CPU a very simple Air Ajax application... more »
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Make Data Not Look Like Data
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Just about every web page has some sort of data behind it. This blog post, for example, has a title, a date, categories, tags, and the body of the... more »
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Some Reasons Flex Looks Appealing
Gregg Bolinger via greggbolinger.com
James Ward politely pointed out some links where I could see more Flex in action (not the book). After spending some time doing this I started doing a... more »
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Skinning a Slider with Nimbus
So time for a example of how to skin a Swing JSlider using the Nimbus Look and Feel and some simple painting code. So this is what we get with the... more »
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Swing Sexy Desktop Application
When people want to have a good-looking user interface with Swing, most of the time they use a good look and feel or try to emulate the look of the... more »
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How to build a AS3 Videoplayer
Nice 2 part flash tutorial creating a as3 videoplayer
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A very late “Nimbus is Done” blog!
Wow its been crazy, we have finally finished Nimbus for 6u10 and release candidate is out there Java 6u10 RC Download, have done Java One and I am now... more »
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