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JavaFX In Action #23 with Craig Raw about the Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet

JavaFX In Action #23 with Craig Raw about the Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet

I don’t have any bitcoin myself, but still find the idea of the blockchain and “public shared money” fascinating. And as it turns out, there is a free and open-source bitcoin wallet, created with JavaFX, that wants to help people understand how the Bitcoin system works, and make transactions easy to understand. Thanks to the work of Craig Raw, there is an easy-to-use desktop application to create and manage wallets. And while he explains the app itself, we also learn a lot about the Bitcoin ecosystem, reproducible builds, security, hardware wallets, and more!

JavaFX In Action #21 with Vlad Protsenko, Combining Clojure with JavaFX for Game Development with Defold

JavaFX In Action #21 with Vlad Protsenko, Combining Clojure with JavaFX for Game Development with Defold

Vlad Protsenko is a Clojure developer working at Defold. While I initially wanted to learn about the Cljfx project, our conversation evolved into a learning experience: a practical getting-started guide to Clojure, a hands-on demonstration of building JavaFX user interfaces with minimal code, and an inside look at the Defold game engine and its JavaFX-based IDE.

Java 21+ on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 is Back In Business

Java 21+ on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 is Back In Business

As described before on Java 21+ Not Working on Raspberry Pi Zero 2, a problem appeared to execute Java code on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 with OpenJDK 21 or higher. Reason: in OpenJDK 21 the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler has been improved, but this change doesn’t work correctly on the ARM Cortex-A53 processor as used in the Zero 2. It’s another type of processor compared to, for instance, the Raspberry Pi 4 (Cortex-A72) and 5 (Cortex-A76).

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