JavaFX on iOS & Android?
JavaFX does not currently support iOS or Android, but the possibility has been subject to much hopeful speculation. One recent example is Felix Bembrick’s manifesto Six Degrees of Separation. What...
View ArticleC 11 Standard now for $30, too
The ANSI Store finally offers the C 11 standard for a reasonable US $30, under document 9899-2012. As a reminder, the C++ 11 standard has been available for the same price since April 2012, as document...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Luttwak’s Grand Strategy of Rome
Edward N. Luttwak’s The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (John Hopkins University Press 1976) is a compact (255 pages) and brilliant classic on military and diplomatic strategies from the principate...
View ArticleFall Patch for Civ5 Brave New World
Firaxis has just released patch version 1.0.3.142 for Sid Meier’s Civilization V, or rather for Brave New World since most changes are specific to that expansion. I’ve updated my own Civ5 Patch Notes...
View ArticleWindows 8.1: Much Ado About Nothing
Yesterday Microsoft released Windows 8.1 as a free update for Windows 8. I dutifully updated but found it barely worth the effort. Endlessly hyped as the fixed version of Windows 8, the one that would...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marumi Macro October
Autumn was unusually warm and sunny, so I managed to shoot another batch of arthropods. Once again, the equipment was a Sony NEX-7 with the SEL-18200 zoom lens and a Marumi DHG Achromat +3 macro...
View ArticleyWorks yEd & UML Doclet
The core products of yWorks are the yFiles libraries for Java, .NET, and JavaScript which handle graph analysis, layout, and visualization. The libraries are enterprise-priced (thousands of dollars)...
View ArticleOld Floats & New Fonts
From the history of computing to tips for indie developers and icon fonts, here are the latest additions to my website archives over the last month. Developer Links: Charles Severance’s 1998 Interview...
View ArticleClik here to view.
JavaFX ListView Sizing
JavaFX supports automatic self-adjusting layout that resizes controls along with the containing window, but this may require some non-obvious changes to the controls’ default properties. The problem I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Raw Conversion with Squirrels
So far I had let my Sony NEX-7 convert all pictures to JPEG format in-camera. However, professionals say the professional thing to do is to use a digital camera’s raw image format that precisely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cubist Lords of Waterdeep
Playdek’s latest iOS board game adaptation is Lords of Waterdeep, a worker placement game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. The board game itself is quite recent, published in March 2012 –...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Amazing Clinometer
Peter Breitling’s Clinometer is a small but sophisticated and very useful application for iOS, Android & Windows Phone. Using the various motion sensors built into these devices, it turns them into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MIME Browser 1.2 Released
Version 1.2 of MIME Browser, my free multi-platform EML viewer written in JavaFX, is now available for download. No big new features but a lot of small ones, including some user requests, as well as...
View ArticleJava, RNG, Raster & Maps
Rounding up last month’s noteworthy archive entries… Java for C# Developers: Andrei Rinea has started a nice tutorial series, Beginning Java for .NET Developers. His overview slides also mention a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stephansdom & Lightroom
Having victimized a neighborhood squirrel for my first experiments with raw digital images, I now decided to rectify the one notable omission in this summer’s Passau gallery. That’s the famous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WebView, the other JavaFX UI
Aside from its native UI facilities, JavaFX provides a WebView that’s essentially an embedded HTML 5 browser. The underlying WebEngine is a modified Webkit engine which you can download here. Digging...
View ArticleGreatest Hits in 2012/13
Time for some self-indulgence! Back in March 2012 I started posting on Blogger but switched to the far superior WordPress.com within a month, and then to a self-hosted WordPress setup in April 2013....
View ArticleNapoleon’s Unlikely Career
Sociologist Randall Collins has published another fascinating essay-length post, this time on the illustrious career of Napoleon Bonaparte and the old question of talent versus luck. The single worst...
View ArticleClik here to view.
JavaFX Text Icons as Images & Files
There are plenty of high-quality icon fonts for scalable user interfaces, and drawing them directly as Text into JavaFX UIs is simple. But what if you need the icon as an Image or a disk file? That’s...
View ArticleGuesswork on Windows & Hybrid Devices
Microsoft’s future has become even less clear than usual since Steve Ballmer announced his resignation as CEO last year. The search for a replacement turned out to be protracted, most likely because...
View Article