Dustin Marx

JavaFX 2 Animation: Path Transitions

Dustin Marx — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:41:00 -0500

One of the flashiest aspects of JavaFX 2 is its animation support. The insightful Creating Transitions and Timeline Animation in JavaFX covers using both Transitions and Timelines in JavaFX 2.

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Book Review: JBoss AS 7: Configuration, Deployment, and Administration

Dustin Marx — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:04:00 -0500

I eagerly accepted Packt Publishing's invitation to review JBoss AS 7: Configuration, Deployment, and Administration because it has been several years since I last used JBoss and I was curious to learn more about JBoss AS 7.

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JavaFX 2 Presents the Quadratic Formula

Dustin Marx — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:58:00 -0500

I recently needed to check some homework answers related to use of the quadratic formula. After realizing that it was getting tedious to do these by hand, I thought of using my calculator to solve them. However, I realized that I could write a simple application using JavaFX to calculate the results and that approach seemed more interesting than using the calculator.

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JavaFX 2.1: JavaFX 2's @DefaultProperty Annotation

Dustin Marx — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:56:00 -0500

The JavaLobby/DZone syndicated version of my blog post Focus on JavaFX 2 FXML with NetBeans 7.1 was recently published and Mihai Dinca-panaitescu (author of DZone article Tuning Your Java VM) added an interesting and useful feedback comment.

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Recent Java-Related Posts Worthy of Special Notice

Dustin Marx — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:59:00 -0500

In this blog post, I reference and summarize recent Java-related posts that I have found to be particularly interesting and well worth the time spent reading them.

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Book Review: JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example

Dustin Marx — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:49:00 -0500

Although Oracle's changes to JavaFX at JavaOne 2010 and JavaOne 2011 have converted me from a skeptic to a believer when it comes to

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Focus on JavaFX 2 FXML with NetBeans 7.1

Dustin Marx — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:06:00 -0500

In October 2011, I used the post Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by NetBeans 7.1 beta to look at using NetBeans 7.1 beta to build a simple Hello, World style of JavaFX 2.0 application.

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Revealing Project Naughtiness with Tattletale

Dustin Marx — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:46:00 -0500

Tattletale is a highly useful development tool that not only has a catchy name, but also has a clever slogan: "Betraying your project's naughty little secrets." Tattletale scours JAR files to find various naught little secrets about dependencies, multiple versions, extraneous versions of classes, JARs in multiple locations, and so forth.

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NetBeans 7.1's Unused Assignment and Dead Branch Hints

Dustin Marx — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:16:00 -0500

One of the new code hints provided by NetBeans 7.1 is the Unused Assignment hint. A simple code sample that will cause this hint to be displayed in NetBeans 7.1 is shown next.

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Comparing Heap Dumps with NetBeans 7.1

Dustin Marx — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:21:00 -0500

One of the "new and noteworthy" features of NetBeans 7.1 is the ability to compare two heap dumps. Specifically, the easy-to-use feature allows one to quickly ascertain the difference in number of each class's instances between two dump files. This brief post shows how easy it is to use.

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First Impressions of Book 'JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration'

Dustin Marx — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:48:00 -0500

Packt Publishing recently invited me to review the book JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration. I readily accepted because I have not used or even read about JBoss in several years and welcomed the opportunity to read about its latest features.

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Java Back in the OSCON 2012 Fold

Dustin Marx — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:26:00 -0500

By all accounts I have read and others have expressed, OSCON Java 2011 was a tremendous success.

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NetBeans 7.1 Released

Dustin Marx — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:35:00 -0500

Perhaps the biggest news in all of Javadom this past week was the release of NetBeans 7.1.

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Pair Class Coming to Java via JavaFX?

Dustin Marx — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:39:00 -0500

The pair class is familiar to those of us who have used C++ for any considerable length of time. Although there has been talk of adding it to Java as a standard part of the SDK, it is a somewhat controversial topic.

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JavaFX 2's Tri-State CheckBox

Dustin Marx — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:20:00 -0500

JavaFX 2.0 provides the CheckBox (notice capital 'B' versus AWT's Checkbox's lowercase 'b') control that supports three states ("undefined", "checked", and "unchecked").

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