Writing… done
Today, Chet sent the last chapters of our book to the publisher. Apparently we are now entering the most dreaded phase: fixing all the small problems that remain in the text. We’ll see how it goes over the next few weeks but I’m glad we made it so far. And I’m pretty sure Chet, and [...]
OpenGL Shaders in the JDK
Chris Campbell hints at some new optimizations in the JDK using OpenGL shaders. Chris says he will soon publish a blog entry to give more details about those optimizations. I can’t wait to read that one!
What Effect Would You Like to See in the Book?
As I hinted previously, the book Filthy Rich Clients is almost done. But something just occured to me… Is there any visual effect that you would like to see explained in the book? Given the time we have left to wrap up the final chapters, I can only consider adding one and only one visual [...]
Fast Image Processing with JOGL
Chet and I are almost done with our incoming book, Filthy Rich Clients. Last week, I decided to add a fun demo to the book to show how to implement a bloom effect. Blooms are widely spread in modern video games to spread out light sources. It works usually very well in games with a [...]
Wii Love Games
Even though I don’t spend a lot of time playing video games, I do play to a lot of different games, mostly on consoles (I keep a PC mostly to play to adventures games like the new Sam and Max series.) I currently own a Wii, an XBox 360 and a Nintendo DS. I’m running [...]
Quartz Composer and Dashboard Widgets
The Apple Developer Connection just published my article about using Quartz Composer compositions in Dashboard widgets. The example widget displays Flickr’s most interesting photos of the past 7 days one by one, playing a nice animated transition between each.
JavaPolis 2006 Interview
Yet another bit of shameless self-promotion indeed :) Chet Haase, who works at Sun Microsystems on client technologies, and I gave an interview during JavaPolis. The video is available on Parleys. This web site hosts a bunch of other video interviews, you should check it out.
Look and Feels Galore
There’s been quite a lot happening in the Swing look and feel space recently. While Synthetica continues to improve, we’ve seen the A03 new look and feel pop up, new themes for Substance and I discovered JTattoo. If you know other new look and feels, or know about other cool new features in existing look [...]
Google Images
Google recently updated Google Images and I wonder why they did what they did. The new version is indeed very trendy, with a brand new rollover effect on each displayed image. I have nothing against eye-candy but this one is very frustrating. Google Images used to show the name and the resolution under the picture. [...]
Desktop Matters
Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer and the No Fluff Just Stuff team are preparing a developer conference focused on desktop technologies. In case you haven’t noticed the banner on this web page, it’s called Desktop Matters and takes place in San Jose, CA, on Thursday March 8 and Friday March 9. Most of the conference material [...]
Java Plugin Animation Reloaded
I am sure you’ve all seen the animation played by the Java plugin when a large applet loads in the web browser. Sun found it a bit outdated and decided to improve it for JDK6u1 and JDK7. Chris Campbell did the implementation work and explains a few things about it on his blog. I especially [...]
Interview with InfoQ
InfoQ just published a video interview I gave a few months ago, at JavaZone 2006.
