Aerith widgets library in NetBeans
Julian Gamble just pointed me to his new open source project, aerithnetbeans. This project offers most of the widgets we created for Aerith as a reusable library that integrates nicely with NetBeans’ GUI editor. If you are interested, I invite you to check out the showcase movies.
Sexy Swing Apps on Mac OS X
A few months ago I stumbled upon what came to be one of the most interesting Swing blogs I’ve ever read. Actually, it is the most interesting Swing blog I know of. Exploding Pixels, by Ken Orr, shows how to create beautiful looking Swing applications for Mac OS X. Ken has a great sense of [...]
Filthy Rich Clients in Japanese
Thanks to the hard work of Kouichi Matsuda, Filthy Rich Clients is now available in Japanese. Now I wish I didn’t drop out of my Japanese class after only one year :)
Slides and Audio for Filthy Rich Clients at JavaOne 2008
Sun has posted the slides and audio of Filthy Rich Clients 2008. Enjoy!
Slides from JavaOne 2008: Filthier, Richer, Clientier
Chet and I just posted our JavaOne 2008 slides online.
JavaOne, Talk and Signing Sessions
Chet and I will be presenting Filthy Rich Clients at JavaOne once again this year. We are excited and happily surprised by the high number of pre-registrations for our talk, the room is almost full already! However, if you plan on attending this session, make sure you check your schedule as Sun decided to move [...]
Graphics Benchmark
Chet just wrote a very interesting blog about graphics benchmark, and BubbleMark in particular, used to compare various RIA runtimes performance. I highly recommend reading it.
What do you want to hear about?
Chet and I are going to present another installment of Filthy Rich Clients at JavaOne 2008. We have a bunch of cool ideas for techniques and demos we would like to show you but I am very interested in hearing what you want to know about. If you have any visual effect, animation or graphics [...]
Update
I would like to apologize to the loyal readers of this blog for the lack of updates since last december. Android is a fascinating project which keeps me very busy at work and I would probably need to clone myself a few times to implement all the features I would like to see in it. [...]
Project Scene Graph
Sun Microsystems just released Project Scene Graph, a scene graph API for Java 2D and Swing. This API makes it very easy to write complex drawings or visual effects. It also lets you blend Swing component with regular Java 2D objects, with as little effort as possible. The web site contains early binaries and sources [...]
Another Filthy Rich Clients Review
Geertjan Wielenga just published his review of Filthy Rich Clients.
Introduction to Fuse
Daniel Spiewak just published a very nice introduction to Fuse at JavaLobby. I wish I had spent more time working on Fuse this year but at least it works really well. I know that Daniel is using it, or was using it, in a big Swing application.
The Swing Team is Hiring
Jasper reports that the Swing team is hiring!
Animated Transitions Made Easy
Chet finally released his AnimatedTransition library. This library is discussed in details in Chapter 18 of our book. Given its name, I won’t insult you by explaining what this library does :)
eBook for Filthy Rich Clients
Some of you asked for an eBook version of Filthy Rich Clients and so far the only way to download a PDF of our book was to subscribe to Safari. You can now buy the PDF only on informIT, without any subscription. Enjoy!
Filthy Rich Clients Demos as NetBeans Plugin
Geertjan sent us a great plugin for NetBeans 6. When installed, this plugin lets you open any of the examples from our book directly into NetBeans. Just click on the File > New Project… menu item, select your demo, and you’re done! To add this feature to NetBeans, you first need to download the plugin [...]
Translucent shaped Windows (Extreme GUI Makeover)
When we showed off the REALiTY demo for Extreme GUI Makeover 2007 at JavaOne, I demonstrated translucent shaped windows in Java. The code behind this effect is a lot like other effects from the same demo. In REALiTY, translucent shaped windows are used to show more details about the selected table row. You can see [...]
Filthy Rich Samples in NetBeans
Geertjan recently asked Chet and I to choose a few of our Filthy Rich Demos to be included in the NetBeans Sample Catalog. Geertjan also started working on a new NetBeans module that lets you create a New Project template from one or more samples. This module can now be used to add all of [...]
Another Free Chapter
InfoQ just published a review of Filthy Rich Clients. This review contains a link to chapter 14 of the book, Timing Framework Fundamentals. Enjoy!
Beautiful Swing
Palantir guys are doing the kind of applications I wish I worked on (at least on the UI.) Check out their screenshots.
The Secret Behind Nimbus
Jasper just posted a blog entry in which he explains that Nimbus is almost done. That is exciting. Even more exciting is how Nimbus was implemented. Nimbus was built entirely with shapes and vectors in a visual editing tool built as a NetBeans module. This let Jasper and Richard draw every single component, even the [...]
New Look and Feel
Synthetica now supports a new theme called WhiteVision. It’s a beautiful modern theme that I really encourage you to try. Screenshots can be found on Synthetica’s web site but you can also try the new Synthetica Office demo to check it out.
First review for Filthy Rich Clients
If you’re still not sure whether you should buy a copy of Filthy Rich Clients, take a look at our first review by Gregg Bolinger. Thanks Gregg!
TimingFramework 1.0
Chet just announced the release of TimingFramework 1.0.
