One of the cool new features of the JavaFX 2.2 developer preview release is a new Canvas node that allows you to do free drawing within an area on the JavaFX scene similar to the HTML 5 Canvas. You can download this release for Windows, Mac, and Linux from JavaFX Developer Preview.

Being adventurous, I decided to take the JavaFX Canvas for a spin around the block. In doing…

We had a great time, ate lots of pizza and learned a lot about mobile programming at the May GatorJUG meeting with Kevin Neelands at Santa Fe College. Kevin brought his computer loaded up with Eclipse and the Android dev environment.
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I recently got to do some Android programming, and I'd like to share some of what I learned. A few things strike you the moment you start developing for Android devices.

    1. It is Java

    2. Layouts are done with XML

    3. Android 'pages', or activities are automonous entities.

Well, strictly speaking, these assertions are not 100% correct. Let me elaborate on each…

We launched a contest to give kudos to all people who are writing

about Java these days. If you want to take a part, please read more

here (http://javaweeklybytes.com/q1.html) and submit your article

until the end of this month. (from Bogomil…

Google is offering grants for women to different conferences (including ours GeeCON 2012). Check outhttp://2012.geecon.org/women and http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/proscho/scholarships/emea/travelgrants/

Thanks to Adrian Nowak of the Polish…

If you are interested in attending JavaOne Hyderabad on May 3-4, the early-bird registration ends on April 2nd.



The registration link is:

http://www.oracle.com/javaone/in-en/register/index.html

There's a new ThoughtWorks Radar out,  http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar It's a market intelligence report that looks at the IT industry and languages, technologies as a whole and shows statistics about them in relation to each other. It's a good way to see a high level view of what's going on. Thanks to Marcelo of the …

Check out these cool submissions to the Africa Android Challenge:

http://www.androidchallenge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49

The Africa Android Challenge is an opportunity to discover the best developers and Android…

Introducing The Java Posse! Check out this podcast from 4 guys who know the score when it comes to software development:

Java Posse #337 - Codemash 2011…

James Ward came to Florida and gave a talk on cloud computing for the GatorJUG in Gainesville and the OrlandoJUG this week.

What a great presenter! James gave us such an informative talk. The very first slide of his presentation impressed me practically more than anything else. It described current (newer) trends in software development like continuous…

James Ward gave a great presentation on Heroku.  The server of choice for Facebook developement.  He commented on some attendees not being familiar with all the buzzwords he used.  So we thought of a Buzzword Bingo game. 

I think having a handout with the most common buzzwords especially any the speaker is likely to use would be useful.  I have always thought having a handout about the speaker and topic would be a good idea.  I have never had the time to actually create such a useful…

There's a new tool on Codetown that lets you translate the entire site to different languages. Give it a try! You will see it on the righthand column. Hope this helps all you non-English as a first language people. All the best, Michael

Max Bonbhel is an organizer of Africa JUG, Congo JUG and tireless volunteer. He describes his work over the past year in this blog post:

http://bonbhel.blogspot.com/2012/02/2011-what-i-did.html

Bravo,…

Bonjour à tous,



Africa Android Training sera de la partie pour Global Android Dev Camp ! 

Mais nous allons proposer quelque chose de plus original qu'un simple Hackathon “classic” !

Africa Android Training propose 2 jours de formation Android en ligne non-stop!



Vous pouvez ainsi participer peut importe où vous êtes ! 



Sujet :



Jour 1 : Services, Location and Maps 

Jour 2 : Web Services, XML and…

The Bangalore Android Group announces:

Please find the schedule for the hangouts as a part of Android Dev fest below.

Watch it live @ www.ustream.tv/channel/blrdroid

Tuesday

If a new proposal by Oracle is accepted, oversight of Java technical standards will fall under the auspices of a single committee, rather than the current system, which has separate entities for Java EE/SE and ME.

Java SE and EE concern desktop and server environments while ME is for mobile and embedded uses of Java.

Read more …

This post will soon contain several Java interfaces for something called a Generatrix. It is the subject of a research article I have submitted to an upcoming IEEE conference. The sample code here will be a supplement to the article for the benefit of the review team and readers, if the article is accepted.

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