Again a busy month in JavaFX-world! Here is a nice list with links for your reading and clicking pleasure! This is the summary of the #LinksOfTheWeek as published on jfx-central.com in May 2023. JavaFX Core JavaFX 21-ea+17 is available for download from GluonHQ or from Maven central. Johan Vos believes it’s time…

How do you get the maximum performance out of your Java application? And how to use profiling to find the bottlenecks? Let’s learn all about it in this podcast, with Heinz Kabutz, Marcus Lagergren, Chris Newland, and Frank Delporte! Java profiling is a crucial technique for measuring and improving the…

Let’s talk about programming for fun. Grab your Lego and robots, and let’s talk about STEM and STEAM! As a developer, we all get frustrated occasionally when a bug messes up our schedule, and we have to dive deep into the code to find a solution. But still, many of…

Some time ago on Twitter, I discovered @Orango_Mango, who shared his progress in creating a 3D engine with JavaFX. The shared videos started with a Rubik’s cube in January ’23, over a basic tumbling car in February, to a full Minecraft-like world in April. Who is this @OrangoMango? And why…

Once a month, the Foojay Podcast virtually visits a JUG to talk with the people behind it. SouJava, the Brazil JUG, was founded in 1999, and according to Wikipedia, is recognized as the world’s largest Java User Group with 40,000 members. There’s a lot we can learn from the people…

Functional programming… it seems you either love it or you hate it. But, like everything in software engineering, it is a trade-off. So for today, let’s focus on the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of functional programming! Guests Alejandro Serrano, Software Engineer at 47 Degrees, author of “Practical…

Some time ago, Medium announced you can get verified here as a book author, so I immediately applied, and… just got the confirmation e-mail! I’m delighted to see they used the cover of the ebook that’s for sale on Leanpub, and linked to my personal site, so I can keep…

Many developers spend a lot of their time on side projects. It’s an opportunity to learn new techniques and get involved in communities. But sometimes it can also lead to a new job. Or even starting a business based on such a project. Today we are talking to people who…

More than two years ago, I blogged about the use of the Raspberry Pi as an HDMI camera for the ATEM Mini. Although I have been using such a camera since then as my main Zoom camera, I wasn’t always happy with the image quality. …