Amazon is getting serious about competing with Google’s Android Marketplace, as shown by their recent contract with PopCap Games, who has agreed to exclusively distribute two of their popular game titles for a two-week period on the Amazon Appstore.
0 replies - 2598 views - 05/17/11 by Jim Moscater in News
It is an exciting time to learn JavaFX platform to build desktop, mobile and Set-Top Box applications. JavaFX in Action is a book that will get you up to speed in no time at all. The book strikes a...
0 replies - 11112 views - 11/11/09 by Carl Dea in Book Reviews
I've featured Silveira Neto's JavaFX work (play?) in a couple of recent posts, and it appears that he's had gaming on his mind lately. Silveira is a CS student, CEJUG member and Sun Campus Ambassador at Federal University of Ceará.
0 replies - 4363 views - 09/02/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
During the Tuesday afternoon general session at JavaOne 2008, there were some cool JavaFX-related announcements and demos. Grab some popcorn and watch this video of a portion of the session, which includes:
5 replies - 6127 views - 05/15/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
You may know that I've been progressively building a Tetris game in JavaFX on this blog, the most recent post being Game Over: Improving upon the Compiled JavaFX Tetris Program. In each post I've shown you the code and pointed out some highlights. Since...
4 replies - 2789 views - 05/01/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
In the Knowing the State of a JavaFX Script Animation post I showed you the more succinct syntax for controlling animations. Now I'd like to show you some improvements to the TetrisJFX program that I've been developing in this blog, including switching to...
0 replies - 2950 views - 04/29/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
As I mentioned in the previous post (which I accidentally published prematurely), I've been speaking on JavaFX Script at Sun Tech Days in Sydney, Australia. This was a great experience, as it was a well-run, informative conference. Of course, Sydney is...
0 replies - 3952 views - 03/06/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
