Interview 36
Interview posts on webtechie.be highlight developers, makers, and tool creators who share practical insights about Java, JavaFX, embedded systems, and building products that people actually use.
JavaFX In Action #27 with David Gutierrez about JMathAnim to Create Mathematical Animations
The JFX Central Links Of The Week is a great source to discover what is happening in the JavaFX world. One of the projects that caught my eye is JMathAnim, a tool to create …
Debugging BentoFX in MelodyMatrix with Matt Coley, Scenic View, and an Honest Look at AI-Generated Code
There are bugs you can solve by yourself, and bugs where you just need to sit down with someone who knows the internals. This video is in the second category. MelodyMatrix uses …
MelodyMatrix V1.0.0 Released: Shipping a JavaFX App with jDeploy, GitHub Actions, and Auto-Update
Some side projects take a while to get to a proper release. MelodyMatrix is one of those. The app has been downloadable for quite some time thanks to jDeploy , but there was no …
JavaFX In Action #26 with Helal Anwar about GradedAttendance to Organize Class Rooms, Students, Teachers, and Lessons
Every week I collect a list of posts, social messages, videos, etc. related to JavaFX on the JFX Central Links Of The Week . One of the regular “appearances” is Helal …
JavaFX In Action #25 with Lidiany Cerqueira about CERCA, a tool to detect hallucinated references in scientific papers
Every week I collect a list of posts, social messages, videos, etc. related to JavaFX on the JFX Central Links Of The Week . That’s how I recently found a message from …
JavaFX In Action #24 with Florian Enner about Robot 3D Visualizations and Charts
I met Florian Enner a few times at Devoxx in Belgium, and each time he amazed me with his JavaFX demos! He is one of those rare developers who take JavaFX to the next level by …
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 …
JavaFX In Action #22 with Matt Coley, diving into byte code and JARs with Recaf and JavaFX libraries
For my next JavaFX In Action interview, I talked with Matt Coley about Recaf and the JavaFX libraries he’s working on. But unexpectedly, I got a deep-dive course on Java byte …
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 …
Live Stream Coding: Improving the Vaadin+Spring+Pi4J demo application with Matti Tahvonen
During a live stream coding session, Matti Tahvonen and I updated an existing Vaadin+Spring+Pi4J demo application to use the latest version of the libraries and Java 25. It’s …
JavaFX In Action #20 with Dirk Lemmermann, Creator of JavaFX Libraries and Applications
Dirk Lemmermann has created many open source and commercial libraries for Java Swing and JavaFX like CalenderFX, FlexGanttFX, GemsFX,… He is also the founder of JFX Central, …
JavaFX In Action #19 with Gerrit Grunwald, Creator of Many Amazing JavaFX Libraries
Gerrit Grunwald, also known in the Java community as HanSolo on social media, created many JavaFX libraries and blog posts. I wanted to talk with him about his work with JavaFX, …
JavaFX In Action #18 with Brian Schlining: Annotating the Deep-Sea Wildlife
Brian has a dream job! He is responsible for a complex system that allows scientific researchers to research the animals living in the deep sea. He provides them with the tools to …
JavaFX In Action #17 with Cormac Redmond about KafkIO, the Kafka UI for Engineers and Admins
Out of frustration about the existing (expensive) tools to interact with Kafka clusters, Cormac Redmond created his own beautiful tool that he shares for free!
JavaFX In Action #16 with Chris Newland about DemoFX and JitWatch
Chris Newland has a long history in Java and JavaFX development. I invited him to talk about two of his JavaFX projects: DemoFX and JITWatch. While the demos are already …
Interview with Abdoulaye Wade Cissé: Using a JavaFX application as a virtual chemistry and biology lab
Every week I collect JavaFX-related content for the JFX Central Links Of The Week . Last week I saw a video on LinkedIn, shared by Abdoulaye Wade Cissé , of a JavaFX “virtual …
JavaFX In Action #15 with Sven Reimers about JTaccuino, a notebook application for Java developers
Sven Reimers created a JavaFX-based notebook application to make it easier to learn Java and experiment with notebooks that can visualize the variables in different ways like …
JavaFX In Action #14 with Mike Hearn about Conveyor to build self-updating desktop app packages in minutes
Mike Hearn solves a problem that a lot of developers are struggling with: how to easily distribute your application and make sure the users get the latest version. With Conveyor he …
JavaFX In Action #13 with Jago de Vreede about SDKman UI, a user interface on top of SDKMAN for all platforms
Jago de Vreede is bringing SDKMAN to Windows! He builds a user interface on top of the terminal tool to make it easier to use, and add the same time solves the problem that you …
JavaFX In Action #12 with Steve Hannah about jDeploy, to distribute your Java app as a native bundle
Building a Java(FX) app is easy and fun, but how do you efficiently distribute it to different systems? jpackage and GraalVM can help, but jDeploy makes things even more effortless …