From the time James Gosling resigned I started wondering what is he going to do next ? What is so special about James Gosling ? Why is so special about him ? I don’t just consider him as the father of Java, I believe he is one of the most influential person in programming world. [...]
Some people collect Coins, some collect stamps, I collect cool application UI images and Icons images. I have over 3000+ UI images and glossy image icons in my system. It is very difficult to explain what kind of pleasure I get by them, I spend hours browsing through them and coding how to make them [...]
This is how I implemented plant visual effect: Unfortunately current JavaFX(1.2) version doesn’t support converting a node to Buffered Image. Without this feature, not only it is difficult to make complex visual effects, it is difficult to develop an application like paint brush and photo editing software in JavaFX. I took the following approach to [...]
I am working on Java Swing and Java2d since 2000. When I first heard of JavaFX (that time it was called F3) I was excited, as writing special effects and UI Animation’s is very difficult with pure Java. Once I tried F3 language I got confused, syntax was strange, language was very different from Java.I [...]
Long back (I guess in 2006) I implemented basic UI Widgets using Java AWT. That time I felt SWING was too heavy and something like Thinlet is needed. So I implemented complete widgets in Java using AWT 2D Graphics. That time I also had plan to use these widgets for JNode OS. As Yahoo Geocites [...]
Sometime back I developed a Flash kind of introduction Java Applet for my website. You can still find it here. (Please note that you need to have Java 1.5 or above to run this Applet). For this Applet development I used ‘Timing Framework‘ and Kirill Grouchnikov’s SVG to Java 2D Converter. I was in hurry, [...]