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Here's a JavaFX example that creates a nice menu bar.

I was going to present an analogy using different types of cars, but more often than not, the analogy breaks down on some key point or carries some baggage that just doesn’t, and folks start picking apart the analogy and assuming it still applies to the real discussion. The only way to get a perfect analogy is to just talk about what you’re talking about :). So anyway… Lately, I’ve seen a lot of Flash vs. Silverlight posts on various sites. (To the person who thinks this is just about your post, it isn’t >). I usually do my best to stay out of those, because I think the “vs” story is too deep for any one person to accurately portray, but once in a while, I step in.

A paper by Thibaud Lopez Schneider shows that we can transform a function written with conventional control structures and synchronous function calls into a set of callback functions that work in an asychronous environment, such as an RIA that uses XHR. Longer-term, tools may evolved that will automate this process, to simplify the development of correct asynchronous applications.

Many winners employ dashboards to give users a single overview of complex information and use lightboxes to ensure that users notice dialogs. Also, the Office 2007 ribbon showed surprisingly strong early adoption.

How to create a simple MP3 player in JavaFX using the JavaFX SDK media library

A review of JavaFX for the impatient, discusses what problems are solved by the language, and what remains to be improved.

As you know, the JavaFX SDK has been released a week ago for Windows and Mac OS X running on a 64-bit processor. The reason for the latter requirement is that JavaFX needs Java 6 and Apple's Java 6 is only available for 64-bit processors. So? What if you own, like me, a MacBook Pro Core Duo from the 32-bit generation? Need to switch to Windows or Linux? Btw, be aware that while Sun hasn't released an official Linux SDK, Weiqi Gao explained how to tweak the JavaFX SDK for Mac OS X to run under Linux.

With Google Gadgets, Google has arguably pushed Ajax scalability and testing harder than any other single vendor. But that was only the beginning. Adam Sah, architect of Google Gadgets, has been experimenting with using Gadgets to display ads. This summarizes a talk he gave recently to the Visual Ajax User Group.

Innovation is a hard thing to accomplish without risk. Sun is trying to grow their customer base with JavaFX, but may have introduced too much risk in not tethering to the needs of existing customers.

Smart thoughts about the ongoing race to RIA.

SpatialKey makes it easier than ever to expose the "time and place" information locked in your data. It's easy to get your data into the system, and easy to use the highly interactive environment to quickly anwer questions and discover trends.

A basic tutorial showing how to set up a LocalConnection between 2 Flash files.

If you already pay attention to the IronRuby dev group and are on the distribution list, apologies for the dupe. I’ve just got back from a camping trip and rifling through all my emails now. I checked in on the IronRuby group and noticed a new project emerging from someone. It’s from Ivan Porto Carrero and he calls it IronNails. It was previously called something else (quite frankly I liked the other name better myself) but there was already a project named after his chosen name.

This is a short tutorial about some JavaFX elements like ellipses, circles, effects and gradients.

Yesterday, in a “break” from a lovely weekend filled with work (oh joy!), I decided to see if I could find an answer to a question about JavaFX that I’ve been wondering about for a while. What was the question? It’s this: will JavaFX be able to compete with Flash when it comes to rich media in general, and video in particular?

We all know how great integration there is between Java/Flex technologies, but few times we have the opportunity to see a robust application that require heavy usage, with lots of users, tables and data. Here is a case of study of an application with such features.

Flex HTTPService, Browser Cache and IE