Re: [The Java Posse] Is it OK to..

2010-02-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I would say it's okay as long as you allow 100% remote workers. The Java Posse is very geographically distributed. If this is a job only open to people who live in one city, then it's a waste of time for 99% of the people on this list. On Thu Feb 11, 2010, at 10:11 PM, John Wright wrote: Is

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: SCM advice

2010-02-11 Thread Joshua Marinacci
There's an Mercurial plug-in for Eclipse, too (http://www.vectrace.com/ mercurialeclipse/). My point was that the Netbeans sources itself are stored in Mercurial (remember Tor talking about this extensively on a podcast), whereas the Eclipse guys decided to offer git as the standard

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun

2010-02-06 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I don't really see it as a problem. This is no different than people resizing windows of desktop apps. We've known how to deal with that for 20 years. On Sat Feb 6, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Karsten Silz wrote: On Feb 6, 1:48 am, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: The WebOS (the OS that runs

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun

2010-02-06 Thread Joshua Marinacci
, Karsten Silz wrote: On Feb 6, 6:01 pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: I don't really see it as a problem. This is no different than people resizing windows of desktop apps. We've known how to deal with that for 20 years. Of course it's possible! All I'm saying it's more

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun

2010-02-05 Thread Joshua Marinacci
They need alliance with other big players - wonder if Palm and, say, Amazon could converge on app store synergy somehow? IOW, Palm needs a more vibrant app store story. That's one of the things I'm going to be working on: helping developers make great apps for the App Catalog. Incidentally,

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun

2010-02-05 Thread Joshua Marinacci
be a Plugin Development Kit as well, which gives you a straight C+Linux+OpenGL API based on SDL, for the times you really need low level access (ex: OpenGL 3D games). - Josh On Fri Feb 5, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Karsten Silz wrote: On Feb 5, 8:08 pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote

[The Java Posse] The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun

2010-02-04 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Lots of people have opined on Apple's iPad, many deriding it's closed nature and lack of features. The thing is, those problems don't matter to most people. The iPad isn't for you or me. It's for everyone else. I've spent the last 20 years hoping we would have the technology to build such a

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: eBook reader advise

2009-12-26 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Yes, the key to all of these is electronic paper. The most popular form is the technology from eInk, though there are several competing technologies that may hit the market soon. Electronic paper is special because it requires *no* power to keep the image and has a reflective surface instead

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Main Reason for Closures being Fork/Join Framework

2009-11-25 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Unlikely. The single core speed problem is due to fundamental limits of physics. The only way we will make single cores significantly faster is through major silicon process improvements (perhaps using new materials), major cooling improvements (very unlikely), or by making programming models

[The Java Posse] Re: what you think about SWT on desktop

2009-11-02 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Yes, you can skin JavaFX controls with pure code, FXDs, or CSS On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Casper Bang wrote: True. But the problem is then you are required to write your own UIDelegates in Swing to get Nimbus to run on that 3'rd part data picker you tracked down. Flex skinning is a

[The Java Posse] Re: what you think about SWT on desktop

2009-11-02 Thread Joshua Marinacci
JavaFX for mobile has no Swing in it. JavaFX for desktop uses parts of Swing and Java2D today, but it won't always. JavaFX running on the next gen graphics stack will have no AWT or Swing in it at all. However, Swing will always be supported because it's part of core Java and the JRE. That

[The Java Posse] Re: what you think about SWT on desktop

2009-11-02 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Webstart and applets can use native libs with the nativelib element in JNLP files. It's even easier when you use JNLP extensions. I'm sure the SWT team has created a standard SWT extension that you can simply include in your app's JNLP. - Josh On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Mario Camou

[The Java Posse] Re: Josh on Color

2009-10-28 Thread Joshua Marinacci
sorry. i just contacted the datacenter that hosts my virtual server. there was an emergency reboot of the physical hardware and then some sort of bug in Xen which prevented my virtual server from restarting. they've fixed it now. - j On Oct 28, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:

[The Java Posse] Re: Answers from Oracle about Sun Products

2009-10-28 Thread Joshua Marinacci
that's a whole lot of ipods! On Oct 28, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Steven Herod wrote: Large gobs meaning, from what I heard, about 2TB of flash storage. On Oct 29, 9:51 am, Van Riper van.ri...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: Having

[The Java Posse] Re: Josh on Color

2009-10-27 Thread Joshua Marinacci
, but inevitably end up displayed on overhead projections, paper, handhelds, large screens. Do we worry about these up front? Or are the color differences between these and the computer screen too small to worry about? Nice blog - thanks for sharing. -TBT On Oct 25, 11:19 pm, Joshua Marinacci

[The Java Posse] Josh on Color

2009-10-25 Thread Joshua Marinacci
For those of you who are interested in design and usability, I've started my series on design fundamentals with an explanation of color. I'd love to get your feedback. http://www.joshondesign.com/?p=54 - Josh --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[The Java Posse] JavaME SDK for Mac OSX

2009-10-23 Thread Joshua Marinacci
At long last! :) http://java.sun.com/javame/downloads/sdk30.jsp --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[The Java Posse] Re: Java Posse at Oracle OpenWorld?

2009-10-08 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Always take everything the Register says with a grain of salt. They are wrong as much as they are right. JavaOne is still listed on Moscone's website for 2010. On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Phil wrote: More than a rumour:

[The Java Posse] Re: #281 comment: how-to cross compile to an older JDK

2009-10-06 Thread Joshua Marinacci
So you want some sort of JDK wide versioning system so that even the standard runtime libs are versioned and can be swapped out at will. Almost like pieces in a *Jigsaw* puzzle. :) -j On Oct 6, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Jess Holle wrote: There really *should* be a way to set the equivalent of

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-10-02 Thread Joshua Marinacci
On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Jess Holle wrote: Joshua Marinacci wrote: No. The out of process plugin was introduced in Java 6 update 10. Understood, but prior to Java 6 Update 10 one could explicitly use Java Web Start to get out-of-process operation, which is what we're doing

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-10-01 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I've had to resort to dynamically create the jnlp file with appropriate cookie properties passed along. /Casper On 1 Okt., 06:08, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: I'm not sure if the applet uses the same http cache as the browser. However, applets can talk to the page

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-10-01 Thread Joshua Marinacci
The fact that when you launch a Java Web Start application from the browser there is no hand-off of the current cookie set, etc, is problematic -- and has led to double authentication in various use cases for us. I suppose restructuring as a draggable applet would avoid that? Yes. --

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-10-01 Thread Joshua Marinacci
to return to your website. - Josh On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Jess Holle wrote: Joshua Marinacci wrote: The fact that when you launch a Java Web Start application from the browser there is no hand-off of the current cookie set, etc, is problematic -- and has led to double authentication

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-10-01 Thread Joshua Marinacci
, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: You can tell if draggable applets and 6u10 are available using the javascript functions in the Java Deployment Toolkit (deploy.js and dtfx.js). If the user doesn't have the supported configuration they can still run the applet

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-09-30 Thread Joshua Marinacci
On Sep 30, 2009, at 2:33 AM, Casper Bang wrote: Java gained such massive adoption not because it was a particularly great language, but because it became a standard - managers love standards because it provides stability and security. I completely disagree. Java gained widespread adoption

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-09-30 Thread Joshua Marinacci
On Sep 30, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Alan Kent wrote: The other thing I have not looked into deeply yet is authentication support. E.g. Authentication infrastructures using Kerberos, NTML, CAS, SAML, SPNEGO or whatever else the customer dictates is required by their environment. My

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-09-30 Thread Joshua Marinacci
the desktop shortcut without the browser. - Josh On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Alan Kent wrote: Joshua Marinacci wrote: ...This means you can use any authentication scheme you want using one of the many Java authentication libs out there... ...However, in the case of authentication

[The Java Posse] Re: What Flex does right and what Java FX should do

2009-09-23 Thread Joshua Marinacci
pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: Simpler layout rules. Flex doesn't have LayoutManagers. Swing's Layout sucks in JavaFX right now. JFXtra's offers some assistance here with a Grid and MigLayout layout helpers, but its a priority I believe for the team. Actually, the layout

[The Java Posse] Re: What Flex does right and what Java FX should do

2009-09-23 Thread Joshua Marinacci
yep. There have been several times when I wanted an immediate mode API but each of these had a better alternative using the scenegraph API. A few items aren't possible with today's API, but I've filed bugs to add them. see: http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-5570

[The Java Posse] Re: What Flex does right and what Java FX should do

2009-09-22 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Event bubbling. Flex/Flash has the concept of event bubbling. Bubbling helps alleviate the performance issues because events can be defined to bubble or not at event creation time. Swing used to bubble all events in 1.0, but that got neutered when they had performance problems. That

[The Java Posse] Re: What Flex does right and what Java FX should do

2009-09-22 Thread Joshua Marinacci
From what I've seen over the past 10 months of working with JavaFX is that 1. It was initially quite immature 2. It's rapidly improving 3. The guys at Sun seem to 'get' it, and are working their butts off to make it work. We are waiting for the brand new PRISM scenegraph architecture,

[The Java Posse] Re: What Flex does right and what Java FX should do

2009-09-22 Thread Joshua Marinacci
On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Jess Holle wrote: Joshua Marinacci wrote: Events are projected through the scenegraph. If you click on a rectangle it will get the mouse event. If the rectangle doesn't have blocksMouse:true set then the event will also go to the nodes below

[The Java Posse] Re: What Flex does right and what Java FX should do

2009-09-21 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Have you looked at JavaFX at all? Almost all of the things you prefer in Flex over Java have been addressed in JavaFX. We felt much as you did, that Swing wasn't cutting as a 21st century toolkit. - Josh On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:19 PM, sasperilla wrote: I just listened to the podcast about

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-19 Thread Joshua Marinacci
many hard problems become solvable with a module system. that's why it's the most important feature for JDK 7 On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: These are (easily) solvable problems. Especially with a module system. On Sep 18, 7:05 pm, Alex Buckley alex.buck...@sun.com

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-17 Thread Joshua Marinacci
(warning, this is long). It's easier to invent a new language than improve the old one for the same reason it's far faster and cheaper to build a brand new road then to do minor repairs on an existing road that's *in use*. This is just the nature of software. Once something ships and is

[The Java Posse] Re: Examples of component syntax?

2009-09-16 Thread Joshua Marinacci
in JavaFX you do this: Button { action: function() { println(I'm doing stuff. Honest!); } } the function above is actually a closure. You could also do this: function doStuff():Void { println(I'm really doing stuff this time); } Button { action: doStuff

[The Java Posse] Re: Examples of component syntax?

2009-09-16 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I haven't listened to the podcast yet, so I'm not sure what they were referring to. I'm just demonstrating the JavaFX Script syntax. What makes the syntax great (and an improvement over the Swing way) is a couple of things: closures, slightly cleaner than inner classes in Java

[The Java Posse] Re: Metaprogramming in JavaFX?

2009-09-16 Thread Joshua Marinacci
can you define what you mean by 'metaprogramming' in this context? On Sep 16, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Dan Haywood wrote: Hi all, first post! Since we have knowledgeable people responding on another thread about JavaFX, I have another question, namely, is there any way to do metaprogramming in

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Where coin went a bit wrong, I think, is in how you required more work from the community than what you require internally. I presume when (outside of coin) sun employees decide on java features to add to the language, they first do some analysis of which ones are worth it, pick one, nail

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
When performance testing the client JRE we do two things which seem to help: 1) check out both the latest and your older / baseline releases of your code. Test them *both*. This lets you plot how you have improved, regardless of what computer your tests are running on. It's also the only

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
you think that for certain situations, throwing away results that might be affected by start-up times is the exact wrong thing to do? Alexey From: Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:43:06 AM Subject: [The Java Posse

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
There is however, a very big difference between looking at a language change from the perspective of a language implementor vs a language user. In any case, I look forward to our discussion! And I look forward to listening! - Joe (the other Joe) On Sep 2, 8:44 pm, jddarcy

[The Java Posse] Re: iPhone gets .Net app development

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Cross compiling your language into Objective C (which is what all of these iPhone solutions do, even the Java one (yes, there is one)) is light years away from creating a browser plugin for Mobile Safari. On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:17 AM, Casper Bang wrote: Why the grain of salt? For a while

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
outside the code system (ie: the database). What if you could mark some blocks as locked so that they wouldn't be refactorable and would give you a warning when you try to do so. You could still unlock it if you decide it's what you really want to do, but this gives you protection against

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
to do with each other except that it was historically convenient. - J On Sep 14, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Vince O'Sullivan wrote: On Sep 13, 10:20 pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: * inline unit tests. Why are your unit tests in a separate class. It should be easy to put the test

[The Java Posse] Re: iPhone gets .Net app development

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
as if you don't have a team trying to get JavaFX up and running on the iPhone. I can only say this: JavaFX not being on an iPhone has never been a technical issue /Casper On 14 Sep., 16:36, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: You said the first browser RIA plugin to be supported

[The Java Posse] Re: iPhone gets .Net app development

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
On Sep 14, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: Joshua Marinacci wrote: You said the first browser RIA plugin to be supported on the iPhone. I'm saying that what they are doing won't make it happen. Yes, it's possible to build a pure Java app that you can install on non-hacked

[The Java Posse] Re: iPhone gets .Net app development

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
to eventually offer Silverligt on the iPhone. Do you plan on offering JavaFX there? /Casper On 14 Sep., 14:16, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: Cross compiling your language into Objective C (which is what all of these iPhone solutions do, even the Java one (yes, there is one

[The Java Posse] Re: iPhone gets .Net app development

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Both Java and C# (as well as many other JVM CLR based languages) can be compiled directly to machine code . There have been attempts to do so since the early days of Java. However, there is a *reason* why these approaches are rarely used in production anymore. The assumed speed gains

[The Java Posse] Re: iPhone gets .Net app development

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I just read through the link you sent. Interesting stuff. Yes, it's true that the CLR (which is what they are talking about, not C# the language, when referring to JIT stuff) was designed to be only JITed not interpreted; whereas Java was originally designed for more constrained devices

[The Java Posse] Re: iPhone gets .Net app development

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
just happen to like elements from both. :) /Casper On 14 Sep., 22:03, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: I just read through the link you sent. Interesting stuff. Yes, it's true that the CLR (which is what they are talking about, not C# the language, when referring to JIT stuff

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - Week 3.1 (broken examples, or has the language changed?!)

2009-09-13 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Also try www.jfxstudio.org, which is a site full of javafx doodles that various people have created (and a good place to show off your own stuff too). We just started our monthly coding contest back up as well. Do something cool in only 30 lines of code. The deadline is the end of

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-13 Thread Joshua Marinacci
usually preferred spaces instead of tabs, but tabs would make it easier to make sure that the statements stay lined up. In fact, using tabs explicitly expresses the intent for them to line up.) -Brian On Sep 9, 11:10 pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: RANT! Why, in the 21st

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - Week 3.1 (broken examples, or has the language changed?!)

2009-09-12 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Where are you finding these examples? The do keyword was removed from the language over 18 months ago. The best samples are at www.javafx.com/samples since they are always kept up to date. The up to date language spec is here:

AST based language: was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-10 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Joshua Marinacci wrote: RANT! Why, in the 21st century, are we still writing code with ascii symbols in text editors, and worried about the exact indentation and whether to use tabs, spaces, etc?!! Since the IDE knows the structure of our code, why aren't we just sharing ASTs directly, letting

Re: AST based language: was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-10 Thread Joshua Marinacci
On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Ben Schulz wrote: Youv'e got to write IDE support for this. Building this new language requires also building an IDE plugin that understands it. And that probably explains why it hasn't been done before, a chicken and egg problem. Ah, but it has been done

Re: AST based language: was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-10 Thread Joshua Marinacci
yep. Essentially these are all things which IDEs and addon tools are trying to do today, but do imperfectly because they are operating on an array of ascii text (or unicode if it's Java). As always, getting from here to there is the hard part. :) On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Casper Bang

Re: AST based language: was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-10 Thread Joshua Marinacci
! On Sep 10, 4:49 pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: I suspect you are right. I've asked this question of many people and gotten a variety of reasons why it won't work. They reasons are always valid, but they always boil down to the same thing: compatibility with existing systems

Re: AST based language: was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-10 Thread Joshua Marinacci
that's an interesting article. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who's thought of this. That shows it's not crazy, just very hard to do (for compatibility reasons as he states). Still, I think one day we will move towards this. I can't imagine the computer in the Starship Enterprise

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-09 Thread Joshua Marinacci
that gives me a sad On Sep 9, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Casper Bang wrote: Plus it's uniform! Well the old Sun conventions tried to. Funny enough, I have not seen code like this: switch(myInteger){ case 65:{ // Handle int = 65 } } /Casper

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-09 Thread Joshua Marinacci
RANT! Why, in the 21st century, are we still writing code with ascii symbols in text editors, and worried about the exact indentation and whether to use tabs, spaces, etc?!! Since the IDE knows the structure of our code, why aren't we just sharing ASTs directly, letting your IDE format it

[The Java Posse] JFX Studio's coding challenge theme announced: Time

2009-09-08 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Hi guys. I've announced the theme for this months' coding challenge: Time. http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/jfxstudio-challenge-theme-revealed/ I hope I can get some of the Java Posse listeners to use their mad skillz to build some cool in only 30 lines of code. Thanks, J

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-08 Thread Joshua Marinacci
It's also important to point out that the compiler rejects null for a Boolean because null simply isn't a valid value for a boolean (in the abstract mathematical sense of 'boolean'). Booleans can be true or false. That's it. The compiler rejects anything else. The same for Numbers. The

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-08 Thread Joshua Marinacci
need @Nullable Boolean to tell the JavaFX compiler that Joshua Marinacci wrote: It's also important to point out that the compiler rejects null for a Boolean because null simply isn't a valid value for a boolean (in the abstract mathematical sense of 'boolean'). Booleans can be true

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-03 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Thanks Joe. I appreciate this response. Any chance we can get a blog on it to spread around? On Sep 2, 2009, at 8:44 PM, jddarcy wrote: After listening to episode 277, I'm led to conclude I'm thought of by some as one of the ivory tower guys who just says no to ideas about changing the

[The Java Posse] New JFXStudio Challenge: Small is the New Big

2009-08-31 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Hi guys. With JavaFX 1.2 out the door and the summer almost over we thought it was high time to have another coding challenge at the JFX Studio (www.jfxstudio.org). This time we are going to try something different. Harkening back to the demo scene of old, this month’s challenge is to

[The Java Posse] Re: open source licences scheme

2009-08-29 Thread Joshua Marinacci
+1 always consider your end goal first, then find the license that meets your need. For example, almost all of the open source projects I work on have the underlying goal of getting people to do more interesting things with Java. This means I want to code shared as far and wide as

[The Java Posse] Re: open source licences scheme

2009-08-26 Thread Joshua Marinacci
BSD all the way On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: Thanks ! That's indeed the kind of accessible explanations I am looking for. What would be the logical choice for a care-free open source project ? Everybody can use it, modify it, bla bla bla and the usage is your sole

[The Java Posse] What's a good webframework to use (wait, wait!)

2009-08-24 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Now before you heckle me or throw out 20 different frameworks, let me explain in greater detail what I mean (and if such a thing exists). Suppose I want to create a webservice which lets a client app store a single key / value pair. In about 5 minutes I could could write a servlet that

[The Java Posse] Re: UI design patterns resources ?

2009-08-18 Thread Joshua Marinacci
http://www.welie.com/patterns/ http://ui-patterns.com/ great resources On Aug 18, 2009, at 1:34 AM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: Hello guys, I'm asked to rework a search input screen with way too many input controls to fit on a screen. I was wondering whether this would the occasion to apply

[The Java Posse] Re: c# Better Language Than Java?

2009-08-05 Thread Joshua Marinacci
For being written in the early 90s I think the std libs are pretty good. By comparison the C world was still using things like creat (ENDLESS_CONSTANTS_YOU_CANT_REMEMBER_HERE). The bar on standard libs has been raised in the last 15+ years *because* the Java runtime was so good. A lot of

[The Java Posse] Re: Please stop pimping Matisse/GroupLayout

2009-07-28 Thread Joshua Marinacci
JavaFX provides a new language, a new media stack, and a new scenegraph. While it is built on top of the Java runtime I wouldn't use the word 'just'j any more than I'd say that JRuby is 'just a library' or Eclipse. JavaFX adds quite a lot. It does currently use Java2D underneath but that

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX on netbeans 6.7.1 !

2009-07-28 Thread Joshua Marinacci
and JavaFX is the 302Mb version on that page. Other than that, you have to download an approximation of what you want and then fiddle around (linux style) with it to get what you really want. On Jul 28, 5:57 pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: there is no 300m one as far as I can see

[The Java Posse] Re: Java as C++ or Cobol (a dying language)

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I've always thought of Java as the C of the JVM because it's the mother language. It's the language that most libs are written in and it the set of APIs that all other languages have access to. In the same way that all Unix languages can call down to the common C based libraries. It is

[The Java Posse] Re: Please stop pimping Matisse/GroupLayout

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Have you looked into MigLayout? It's pretty sweet. On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:55 AM, Mikael Grev wrote: The only sensible thing they can do for JavaFX is to add: 1) One kick-ass designer that is better than Matisse 2) One kick-ass manual layout manager 3) An easy and predictable way to move

[The Java Posse] Re: So how exactly does JavaFX work?

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Fabrizio is correct. Technically JavaFX code will run on any Java 1.5 runtime. We use 1.5 bytecode and the internal usage of 1.6 api will correctly degrade. However, the user experience is vastly better on recent versions of 1.6, so we encourage it's use. I believe (though I haven't

[The Java Posse] Re: So how exactly does JavaFX work?

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua Marinacci
level stuff, and it really interests me.) Is the bytecode that is generated just told to go get the codecs from the JavaFX runtime, if so, wouldn't that be a compiler implementation? Cheers, Mark On Jul 24, 1:22 am, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote: Fabrizio is correct

[The Java Posse] Re: Online project hosting?

2009-07-16 Thread Joshua Marinacci
kenai: No continues build integration yet (rumor is that it is planned). It was officially announced at JavaOne. I don't think it's live yet, but it's definitely not a rumor. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

[The Java Posse] Re: #266 - Linux has amazingly good hardware support

2009-07-14 Thread Joshua Marinacci
devices are still having a lot of issues syncing. This is one case where I really wish Apple would support its hardware better and have a version of iTunes for Linux. I'm sure they'd rather have people buy new Mac hardware instead! --Ryan On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Joshua Marinacci

[The Java Posse] Re: #266 - Linux has amazingly good hardware support

2009-07-13 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I think songbird can sync iPods - Josh, on the go On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:59 AM, E Winter ejwin...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a good way to get iTunes port on Linux yet mainly for ipod and iphone syncing? That would be a biggie for me to recommend Linux or even Chrome to 'grandma'. Almost

[The Java Posse] Re: #266 - Linux has amazingly good hardware support

2009-07-11 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I think it's because Mac's aren't an OS. They are a software/hardware combo, all provided by the same vendor. Thus all of the built in hardware is guaranteed to work because it's built by the same company. True, there are peripherals, but it's less critical than it is for Windows.

[The Java Posse] Re: JSF (Java Server Faces)

2009-07-10 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I'm glad to see that people have noticed the JavaFX improvements. The team has an incredible amount of focus. We know what we want JavaFX to be and we also know what we *don't* want it to be, which has been incredibly liberating and lets us work quickly. I've never seen the Java client

[The Java Posse] Re: JSF (Java Server Faces)

2009-07-10 Thread Joshua Marinacci
is being picked up by JavaFX. I hope so anyway. :) /Casper On 11 Jul., 01:27, Joshua Marinacci jos...@gmail.com wrote: Ah. One of our goals with JavaFX is to make it tool friendly but you should still be able to do everything cleanly at the code level. The APIs and language (JavaFX Script) were

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome OS

2009-07-08 Thread Joshua Marinacci
HTML only apps will be awesome. They will be the only thing you need. No native apps at all. Just like the iPhone. It shipped with only HTML apps and that's all that ever people wanted. :) On Jul 8, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Henrique de Miranda Gontijo wrote: -- why would anyone want to live on the

[The Java Posse] Re: need ideas for article based web app

2009-07-07 Thread Joshua Marinacci
btw. JavaFX is a client side technology. It can be easily integrated with server side frameworks, even non Java based ones like wordpress and drupal. - j On Jul 7, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Robert Mark Bram wrote: Thanks Ugur, take a look athttp://www.joomla.org it's php-mysql based CMS, it

[The Java Posse] Re: Add google site to google search

2009-07-02 Thread Joshua Marinacci
the easiest way to get something JavaFX related is to send it to me. I'm always looking for cool JavaFX things to highlight on the JavaFX blog and www.javafx.com. - J On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:41 AM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: That's what I thought too. My blog has been indexed automatically. From

[The Java Posse] Re: In defense of The Google

2009-07-01 Thread Joshua Marinacci
This is incorrect. There are over a billion installations of Java on cellphones. Google has made J2ME based clients before Android and continues to do so. If you want to hit more than 5% of the market you have to use Java. On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Casper Bang wrote: I'm surprised I

[The Java Posse] Re: In defense of Google thread branch: J2ME and Android

2009-07-01 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Pointing out that Google also targets J2SE doesn't prove much, given that they are also more than willing to make Obj-C clients for the iPhone and other non-J2ME devices. Google is just like that, they go after the marked and tries to win the hart of users regardless of underlying

[The Java Posse] Re: In defense of Google thread branch: J2ME and Android

2009-07-01 Thread Joshua Marinacci
actually USES their Symbian phone for anything but calls and messages (I have yet to meet one). I think it's naïve to care only for such a marketing metric, but if that's your definition of popularity then so be it. :) /Casper On 1 Jul., 17:51, Joshua Marinacci jos...@gmail.com wrote: Pointing

[The Java Posse] Re: HTC Magic/Android G2 phone experiences?

2009-06-30 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I don't think the Hero version is unofficial. I'm pretty sure Adobe worked very closely with HTC to port it to their device. On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Casper Bang wrote: Right, I didn't mean to suggest loading ROM's are the way to go in general - that is not the open part of Android

[The Java Posse] Re: Netbeans 6.7 Officially Released

2009-06-29 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Note that JavaFX is currently supported in 6.5.1, not 6.7, but is coming soon. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-06/sunflash.20090629.1.xml - j On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Jason Whaley wrote: http://www.netbeans.org/index.html I've been using the Beta and Release Candidates for a

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

2009-06-29 Thread Joshua Marinacci
On Jun 29, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Alexey Zinger wrote: I don't know if the jar duplication problem is that compelling overall. Even several megabytes of duplicated jar's seems like a drop in the bucket these days. It may be trivial for server side apps where an admin downloads and preps

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

2009-06-29 Thread Joshua Marinacci
that would result in the same speedup in the current JVM? In theory, class loaders only load what's necessary already, no? Alexey From: Joshua Marinacci jos...@gmail.com To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 3:09:30 PM Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

2009-06-29 Thread Joshua Marinacci
: Joshua Marinacci jos...@gmail.com To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 3:23:01 PM Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse modularity is part of that refactoring. we define modules for each major component of the JRE. then we start moving code

[The Java Posse] Re: Google - missing the point?

2009-06-27 Thread Joshua Marinacci
With the new plugin Java and JavaFX applets can easily interoperate with the DOM. You can call javascript from java and vice versa. It's quite nice! On Jun 27, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Alexey Zinger wrote: I have to disagree regarding GWT. I've been using it extensively on new and legacy web

[The Java Posse] Re: Google - missing the point?

2009-06-27 Thread Joshua Marinacci
give it a try. The browser plugin has made huge strides in the past year. re Joshua: yeah I like that idea. Years ago I wanted to do that with applets and live connect but it wasn't easy, I do like the promise of it now - but the problem is its still a promise, its a risk to take over

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

2009-06-26 Thread Joshua Marinacci
vs the javaposse? the java posse has their own modules proposal? awesome! will it support groovy? On Jun 26, 2009, at 2:24 PM, phil.swen...@gmail.com wrote: http://modualrit.blogspot.com/2009/06/jigsaw-posse.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[The Java Posse] Re: The Gimp

2009-06-23 Thread Joshua Marinacci
snippets might also help to encourage participation and of course, there might be a suitable summer of code style project in there for someone. -phil On Jun 11, 4:31 am, Joshua Marinacci jos...@gmail.com wrote: Do any of you actually use the Gimp? I don't need everyone's usability

[The Java Posse] Re: Java FX Studio beta available?

2009-06-18 Thread Joshua Marinacci
I understand what I would need to develop in JavaFX yet?! On Jun 18, 5:48 am, Joshua Marinacci jos...@gmail.com wrote: :) the product doesn't have a final name yet, so we are just calling it the designer tool because it's targeted at designers. On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Victor Grazi

[The Java Posse] Re: Java FX Studio beta available?

2009-06-18 Thread Joshua Marinacci
, or complementary? I'm not sure I understand what I would need to develop in JavaFX yet?! On Jun 18, 5:48 am, Joshua Marinacci jos...@gmail.com wrote: :) the product doesn't have a final name yet, so we are just calling it the designer tool because it's targeted at designers. On Jun 17

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