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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…
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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…
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Dean Iverson and I have been working on an open source project called GroovyFX that provides a Groovy binding that sits on the new JavaFX 2.0 platform. Dean has written a good blog on how to get started with GroovyFX here. It is already a little dated, but if you ignore the JavaFX build numbers and just download the…
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Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their configuration before upgrading to the current 1.55.3 patch.
By Mark Silvester
A critical remote command execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, identified as CVE-2026-73570, poses risks by allowing unauthorized access to mailbox data and credentials. This flaw, stemming from improper input sanitization, has been actively exploited. Organizations are advised to upgrade to version 10.1.20 or disable susceptible SNMP services to mitigate risks.
By Olimpiu Pop
AWS has introduced an enhanced Custom Event Bus for Amazon EventBridge, targeting a problem that often emerges when event-driven architectures move beyond a single team or AWS account: the event infrastructure itself becomes fragmented.
By Craig Risi
Once AI is in production, code arrives faster than it can be reviewed, token costs rise, evals have to be good enough to act on, and agents need permissions and guardrails. QCon AI New York 2026 (December 15-16) has confirmed sessions from engineers sharing how they handle these constraints.
By Artenisa Chatziou
Nicholas Herring shares how EVE Online tackles distributed tracing and observability across a 20-year-old MMO architecture. He discusses leveraging head-based, dynamic exponential moving average (EMA), and deterministic sampling techniques to maintain high system fidelity, control telemetry costs, and avoid performance degradation under high-throughput real-time game simulations.
By Nicholas Herring
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