New Web Site
Chet just uploaded www.filthyrichclients.org, the web site I designed for our upcoming book, Filthy Rich Clients. We will try to make the demos and their source code available on this web site as zip archives. For the time being, the web site offers a link to the project page where you can find the CVS [...]
Slides and Audio Track for Filthy Rich Clients Available
The JavaOne 2007 website now offers the slides and the audio track of the Filthy Rich Clients presentation that Chet and I gave this year in San Francisco.
Demos for Chapters on Performance and Composites
The source code for the demos of chapters 5 (Performance) and 6 (Composites) from our book is available in the CVS repository.
Extreme GUI Makeover Session Video
Developpez.com recently released a series of videos they captured during the Sun Tech Day 2007 in Paris. Among these videos, you will find a one hour session about Extreme GUI Makeover 2006 and yet another demo of Aerith. Both sessions are in French.
Why Safari 3 is Great, Part 2
I showed in a previous post that Safari is better than Firefox, on Windows, at handling pictures. Besides managing color profiles, Safari also offers a much better resizing algorithm. The pictures below show one of my photographs resized by Firefox 2 and Safari 3 on Windows. The original picture is 3620 x 2440 pixels large [...]
Source Code and Demos for Chapter 4 (Images)
I just uploaded the source code for the demos of the fourth chapter of our book. The source code of the demos are available in the CVS repository. Chapter 4 focuses on images and contains explanations on how to resize images efficiently.
Why Safari 3 is Great
By now you have probably read a lot about Safari 3 for Windows and why various bloggers dislike it. Some hate its instability (what a surprise for a beta), some cannot stand its anti-aliasing, and so on. I love Safari 3 for one and only one reason, color management. Unlike Firefox, Safari respects images embedded [...]
Demos for Chapter 3 Available
I just uploaded the source code for the demos of the third chapter of our book. The demos are currently available only on the CVS repository. We’ll try to offer zip archives by the time the book is published. In the meantime, you’ll have to deal with CVS, which will help you get new demos [...]
Demos for Filthy Rich Clients (Book + Talk)
Chet and I just started uploading the source code of the demos shown in our book. The source code is available at filthyrichclients.dev.java.net. We will release the source code incrementally until the printed version of the book comes out early August. Right now, you can download the demos of Chapter 2, Swing Rendering Fundamentals. Unless [...]
Resource Injection with Fuse 0.4
Daniel Spiewak, editor for the EclipseZone, and I released Fuse 0.4 this weekend. Fuse is a resource injection library mainly thought for GUI programming. I presented Fuse several times in this blog already. The two major features in Fuse 0.4, at least to me, are the resource caching to improve performance and the auto injection [...]
