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I have a virtual event to announce that you can participate in online called the NightHacking Tour.

Steven Chin is a friend and colleague of mine. He's a Java…

Got CDI? Wonder what dependency injection and JEE6 are all about? What the heck is Spring? RSVP, por favor. This is an event you won't want to miss! Check it out here and please RSVP so we'll know how much pizza to order. Invite your…

A good time was had by all at our October GatorJUG meeting. Kevin Neelands discussed Android Design Patterns in the context of his recent work on the job with an Android app. The lessons learned he presented were not just interesting but huge timesavers for him. They also dramatically…

Have you ever wondered how Pandora works? Listen to this Swampcast interview with Tom Conrad, CTO as he explains Pandora's music genome project.

NightHacking Tour

The Road to Devoxx - Oct 29 to Nov 11 2012

Featured Interviews:

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Here's an app you'll like - it's called Omni Fluent and…

Netbeans is a free integrated development environment and it's not just for Java! You can use it with C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy. Check out some of the incredibly cool projects coded using Netbeans…

There's a new social network called Menshn. You may have heard of co-founder Louise Mensch, former member of British parliament. Her business partner is Luke Bozier, also the founder of Municipo. 

The idea behind Menshn is…

I went to OSCON last week. It was even better than ever. There were lots of memorable moments for me this year. I'll try to capture them here, stream of consciousness.

*** Note *** this is a work in progress!

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Here's something new - Coders for Africa have a radio show on the web. Lamine Ba of the West African JUG is featured ... among other surprises. Have a listen. This is how it goes in Africa! …

What specific tools should a back-end Java developer have experience with? 

Gerrit Grunwald, aka @hansolo_ on twitter, has just ported his Swing based gauges and meters framework known as SteelSeries to JavaFX as part of the JFXtras-lab project. I can't tell you how many times since Java AWT first came out, that I have had to use meters…

FYI,

I will be expanding on it later, but might be an interesting read for some...

http://jackietutorial.blogspot.com/2012/06/springmongodbwebspherejaxrsmaven-part-1.html

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…