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JavaFX Links of February 2023
February is a short month, but this list seems to be longer than ever… A lot of game development, releases, interesting ongoing development, and so much more to read. Enjoy …
JavaFX Links of January 2023
2023 has taken off with a flying start in JavaFX-world! Here is a summary of the Links Of The Week that were published in January on jfx-central.com .
New Section Added to Foojay.io: Java Quick Start
Foojay.io aims to be the starting point for “all-things OpenJDK,” but during one of my morning walks the idea struck me that this site really needs complete beginner materials, …
JavaFX Links of December 2022
If anyone needs a reminder Java and JavaFX are “alive and kicking”, you can not only check out jfx-central.com , but also the list below.
HiveMQ Cloud, part 4 - Sending sensor data from Raspberry Pi Pico W to HiveMQ Cloud
Exactly one year ago, in December 2021, I published three articles of MQTT messaging with Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Pico and HiveMQ Cloud . On June 30th of 2022, Raspberry Pi …
Schedule your holiday for 2038
The end of the year is approaching, so it’s time to start scheduling your holidays for the next year. But I decided to go a step further and already planned those for 2038! …
JavaFX Links of November 2022
Time flies when having fun… So here we are again, another month has passed and this is a summary of the Links Of The Week that were published on jfx-central.com during …
About Twitter and Mastodon
Twitter has been my “source of truth” for a very long time. I learned a lot from the many technical people who share their work and knowledge on it. It got me in …
Shopping list for JavaOnRaspberryPi
After my talk at J-Fall I got the question what is required to get started with #JavaOnRaspberryPi. In my book I list the components that are used, but indeed a short overview was …
JavaFX Links of October 2022
When I (re)started the JavaFX Links Of The Week on jfx-central.com in September, I was wondering if there would be enough material to share every week.
Book review - Learn JavaFX Game and App Development with FXGL 17
This summer I read the book “Entreprenerd” by Bruno Lowagie . It tells the story of how he started with the iText PDF Java library and turned that into a company …
Devoxx Belgium and J-Fall The Netherlands - Links
Links used in my talks at Devoxx 2022 (Antwerp, Belgium) and J-Fall (Ede, The Netherlands).
JavaFX Links of September 2022
The JavaFX links of the week are back on jfx-central.com , and here we collect the complete month for you in an excellent overview.
Create Music Bingo cards with iText
It has been a while since I last had to create documents in a program, and iText has been “on my radar” to try out for a while now. This weekend we had a party and …
Blink a LED and read a button state with Vaadin, Spring and Pi4J on a Raspberry Pi
As I’m becoming a senior developer in terms of age, I’ve transitioned from one language to another. One of my main interests has always been clean, easy-to-understand …
Er zit slechts een paar 1000km tussen geluk en miserie
English version below Ik heb een vrouw, kind, hond en kat. Mijn Java-collega waar ik al meer dan een jaar dagelijks mee samen werk, heeft ook een vrouw, kinderen, hond en kat. We …
Installing Java with SDKMAN on Raspberry Pi
If you create a new SD card for a Raspberry Pi with the operating system, you can choose the “Raspberry Pi OS Full (32-bit)” edition, which includes Java 11. But a lot …
Starting a new JavaFX projeect in IntelliJ IDEA
On the OpenJFX website you can find a lot of getting started documentation . But as one image/video says more than a thousand words, I created this short movie to show you that …
3D printed Pinecel soldering iron holder
The Pinecil is a very handy and affordable USB-C powered soldering iron (running on open firmware!) with an OLED monochrome display. This soldering iron is made by PINE64 , and is …
3D printed Raspberry Pi Arcade box
As part of the Pi4J project, we created an example game with JavaFX and FXGL that uses an Arcade kit with a Joystick and big push buttons. The test setup for this project was …