Swing Rocks

Jfokus is over, and it was a very positive experience, although with a booth, a brand new presentation and an article in the JayView magazine distributed to all attendees, it was also a bit draining. Thanks to everybody who saw our presentation (we’d love to hear what you thought about it) and/or stopped by our booth. We had a great time, and we hope you did too!

Quick note: JayView is a free magazine published by JayWay, and in the latest issue (#20) there’s an article we’ve written about JavaFX, called “Swing Rocks – The last dance?“. The magazine will be handed out at JFokus, if you’re not going there, you can download it in PDF format on the JayView website any day now.

Right now we’re spending all free time preparing for our presentation at JFokus on wednesday, and it’s really coming together nicely. Like we’ve said before, this presentation (called JavaFX: Designer – Developer Workflow) is kind of a different from our previous ones. Using Photoshop, NetBeans and the tools from the JavaFX Production Suite, we’ll actually create a simple but good looking application from scratch during the presentation. Hopefully we’ll be able to show our audience how easy it is for designers and developers to collaborate on rich user interfaces using JavaFX and the JavaFX Production Suite, and what kind of results you can achieve in less than an hour. Live coding is always a bad idea, and we’re throwing in some live Photoshop wizardry as well, this should be exciting for all of us

Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve been accepted as speakers at JFokus in january, with our presentation JavaFX – Designer Developer Workflow. We had a great time there last year, though we were struck by the weird timing bug we’ve been writing about before during our presentation. This year, our beloved employer Epsilon is an official conference partner, and we’re looking forward to see you in our booth, where you can win some sweet prizes by participating in our robot battle programming competition!