stuff on my mind

Jan
9th

Fri

PDF Viewer and Java 6 Update 10

I’ve spent the last few days finally getting round to updating BFO’s PDF Viewer applet to take advantage of the new Java 6 Update 10 features.

It was mostly straightforward, with most of…

Dec
20th

Sat

The 'official' way to integrate JavaFX with Swing Josh Marinacci has a blog entry on how to integrate Java FX into Swing applications: http://blogs.sun.com/javafx/entry/how_to_use_javafx_in.

It’s good to have a final answer on how to accomplish…

Dec
13th

Sat

JavaFX and Swing - again I’ve noticed that my previous entry about using JavaFX widgets in Swing applications has been getting a lot of traffic since JavaFX 1.0 was finally released.

Having finally had time to download…

Nov
20th

Thu

GPS and MapView in Android Having spent an evening hacking around writing an Android application that uses the GPS position together with the MapView component to show both your current location latitude/longitude and visually…

Nov
13th

Thu

Tracking Java versions of web site visitors Gili over at ‘Where the cows roam free” has a very interesting post about how to combine Google Analytics and the new Java deployment file to track what version of Java visitors to a website are…

Oct
20th

Mon

Java 6 Update 10 released Looks like Java 6 Update 10 has been officially released - for some reason Sun seem to be keeping it quiet, which seems a little odd, considering how significant this release should be for…

Oct
8th

Wed

Fail blog A photo I took is potentially going to be included on Fail Blog - it’s obviously the best one, so please vote it up!

more fail, owned and pwned pics and videos

Debugging Applets on OS X So, despite Apple’s best efforts to hide the Java Preferences dialog in OS X (Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Preferences in case you’re still looking) enough people must have found it by now for…

Sep
7th

Sun

Google Chrome and Java Applets Well, loathe as I am to add yet another blog post to the insane amount of Chrome related items that were blogged and reported last week, I did notice something interesting with regard to Chrome…

Aug
31st

Sun

Compiled JavaFX in Swing applications - again I posted a while ago about problems I was having integrating a compiled JavaFX widget into a Swing application - theoretically it should have been possible, as it’s all Java and Swing, but I hit a…