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Still Alive!

Posted on May 2, 2010 by mhicks

Well, this is a great title for this post not only as it’s the first blog post I’ve made here in seven months, but I’ve also had the song from Portal stuck in my head lately. 🙂 Looking at my blog it would be easy to classify me as MIA but I’ve actually been quite…

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Loops in Scala

Posted on October 1, 2009 by mhicks

Lately I’ve been learning the ins and outs of the Scala language and I have to say, having programmed in Java for the past several years, that Scala is scratching where I itch. It is a lot to grasp and mind opening, but all-in-all I see Scala as what Java could have evolved to if…

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jSeamless 2.0 is Coming!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by mhicks

From the outside looking in it would appear that jSeamless is all but dead, but if you’ve been paying attention to SVN commits you’ll notice there’s been quite a lot of activity for the past several months. I have somewhat abandoned what small community I had with jSeamless 1.0 in an effort to “start over”…

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Java Delegates in xjava

Posted on July 7, 2009 by mhicks

I posted over a year ago about Delegates in Java, and since I kicked off an exploration of the functionality I’m providing in my xjava framework with my previous post I thought I would continue with my newest iteration of the Delegates concept as utilized in xjava. Until you use a language like Scala or…

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The Death of Beans

Posted on July 1, 2009 by mhicks

My previous post was more of a rant about the frustrations of Java Beans: Have Beans been holding us back? I stated at the end of my post/rant that my next post would be about what I suggest as the viable successor to Java Beans. To that end, I begin my discussion about properties. Though…

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Have Beans been holding us back?

Posted on June 30, 2009 by mhicks

I have been a Java developer for many years now and have always taken for granted some of the standards pushed on me from the beginning. Java standards such as basic Java Beans (aka POJOs) are supposed to make life easier by providing simple getters/setters that work with the private fields of your Object. For…

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Java Media Components (JMC) in Swing

Posted on May 4, 2009 by mhicks

If you’re like me and have been really excited by all the hype of JMC, but think of yourself as a Java developer and not a fly being beckoned to the newest scripting framework with its bright and illuminating glow (JavaFX that is) then JMC comes as something of a disappointment. After all, every article…

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JavaFX Wrapper: jSeamless 2.0

Posted on March 7, 2009 by mhicks

I made a post recently (I Hate JavaFX; I Love JavaFX) in which I did a preliminary investigation on the idea of using the JavaFX API directly in Java rather than relying on JavaFX Script to do the job. I used the Clock example I saw on a tutorial on Sun’s site as a practical…

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I Hate JavaFX; I Love JavaFX!

Posted on February 28, 2009 by mhicks

I’ve posted a few places and gotten into more than a few rants publicly about how awful I think it is that Sun has been pushing JavaFX to the Java community. This has not been based on what JavaFX provides, because I think that’s absolutely spectacular, but rather that they created a whole new language…

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Flex WebBrowser Component

Posted on February 18, 2009 by mhicks

I’ve been working on an acceptable solution to display web pages within my Flex applications and as any of you know that have done any research on it will find, it’s frustrating how lacking Flex is in support for this. The ideal solution would be for Flex to provide a fully functional component that renders…

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