In the post JavaFX 2.0 Christmas Tree (JavaFX 2.0 Shapes), I demonstrated using JavaFX 2.0's Path class in conjunction with MoveTo and LineTo to draw a simple Christmas tree.

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As I stated earlier in the post Sneaking a Peek at Guava Release 11, Guava Release 11 provides numerous new classes including several classes specifically related to mathematical operations.

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The JavaFX 2.0 package javafx.scene.shape contains useful classes for drawing shapes in JavaFX. Given that today is Christmas Eve, it seems apropos to demonstrate some of the package's classes that can be used to draw a Christmas tree.

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In recent posts on JavaFX, I have focused on using JavaFX 2.0's new Java APIs without use of the JavaFX 1.x's JavaFXScript and without use of JavaFX 2.0's new FXML.

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The JavaTM SE 7 Update 2 Release Notes state that this update contains "new JVM (Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, version 22) that improves reliability and performance" along with support for Oracle Solaris 11 and "Firefox 5 and later".

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Java 7 brings many new language features and new classes to the Java developer.

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Oracle announced at JavaOne 2010 that they would be deprecating JavaFX Script and changing JavaFX to support standard Java APIs.

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I looked at a simple JavaFX version of the ubiquitous Hello World example from a NetBeans 7.1 beta perspective in the blog post Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by NetBeans 7.1 beta. In this post, I look at a slightly different version of Hello World implemented with JavaFX using only command-line tools.

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The recent reddit/java thread If you still don't know why Guava is awesome .... references the Guava Explained Wiki page. As I was looking at this, I noticed the page focused on Guava Math Explained.

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Most Java developers who come from a C/C++ background have probably at one time wished for a Java equivalent of sizeof().

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RMOUG Training Days 2012 will be held February 14-16, 2012, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.

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I have run into several software development blog posts over recent weeks that I think are worth reading or keeping links to for future reference. I collect some of these in this post.

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For several years now, I've thought about investing more time and effort into learning and trying out Scala. However, there always seems to be something else that I run across that moves ahead in the queue of things I want to examine more closely. With this in mind, the recent postings on general usefulness of Scala have been particularly interesting.

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Most software developers that I know, especially the best ones, loathe worthless tasks. This is probably true of most people who strive to do what they do to the best of their ability, but I'm not aware of any area in which this attitude is more prevalent than in software development. The best software developers are passionate about what they do because they build things, they create things, and they make what they imagine become reality.

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I left JavaOne 2011 with several take-aways. One of the most significant was a renewed interest in learning more about Gradle.

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