30.Jul.2008 JavaFX – presented at javawug
The javawug event presented this time by founder member Peter Pilgrim introduced JavaFX. It appears this is Sun’s attempt to reclaim the desktop. They were the originators with their java applet which they introduced back in 95. This allowed content to be served from the kjnternet and be processed on the desktop. It never took [...]
02.Jul.2008 Concurrency and Performance
I attended my first JAVAWUG meeting on June 9th for a talk on concurrency and performance. I am very new to the development scene but it appeared to me that Kirk Pepperdine was in fact arguing that the way forward is to use progamming languages that are more medium level in behaviour rather than higher [...]