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An interview with the authors of Pro Java FX2: A Definative Guide to Rich Clients with Java Technology.
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Angela Caicedo has created 3 new Java FX screen cast videos on java UTube channel: Part 1: Building your First Java FX Application with Netbeans 7.1, Part 2: Building your First Java FX Application with Netbeans 7.1, and Getting Started with Scene Builder.
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March 27, Virtual Developer Days - Java (Asia Pacific (English)),9:30 am to 2:00pm IST / 12:00pm to 4.30pm SGT / 3.00pm - 7.30pm AEDT
April 4-5, JavaOne Japan, Tokyo, Japan
April 12, GreenJUG, Greenville, SC
April 17-18, JavaOne Russia, Moscow Russia
April 18–20, Devoxx France, Paris, France
April 26, Mix-IT, Lyon, France,
May 3-4, JavaOne India, Hyderabad, India
Feature InterviewPro JavaFX 2: A Definitive Guide to Rich Clients with Java Technology is available from Amazon.com in either paperback or on the Kindle.James L. (Jim) Weaver
is a Java and JavaFX developer, author, and speaker with a passion for
helping rich-client Java and JavaFX become preferred technologies for
new application development. Books that Jim has authored include Inside Java, Beginning J2EE, and Pro JavaFX Platform,
with the latter being updated to cover JavaFX 2.0. His professional
background includes 15 years as a systems architect at EDS, and the same
number of years as an independent developer. Jim is an international
speaker at software technology conferences, including the JavaOne
conferences in San Francisco and São Paulo. Jim blogs at http://javafxpert.com, tweets @javafxpert. Weiqi Gao
is a principal software engineer with Object Computing, Inc., in St.
Louis, MO. He has more than 18 years of software development experience
and has been using Java technology since 1998. He is interested in
programming languages, object-oriented systems, distributed computing,
and graphical user interfaces. He is a presenter and a member of the
steering committee of the St. Louis Java Users Group. Weiqi holds a PhD
in mathematics. Stephen Chin
is chief agile methodologist at GXS and a technical expert in client UI
technologies. He is lead author on the Pro Android Flash title and
coauthored the Pro JavaFX Platform title, which is the leading technical
reference for JavaFX. In addition, Stephen runs the very successful
Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group, which has hundreds of members and tens
of thousands of online viewers. Finally, he is a Java Champion, chair
of the OSCON Java conference, and an internationally recognized speaker
featured at Devoxx, Codemash, AnDevCon, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he
received a Rock Star Award. Stephen can be followed on twitter
@steveonjava and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com.Dean Iverson
has been writing software professionally for more than 15 years. He is
employed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, where he is a
rich client application developer. He also has a small software
consultancy called Pleasing Software Solutions, which he cofounded with
his wife. Johan Vos
started to work with Java in 1995. As part of the Blackdown team, he
helped port Java to Linux. With LodgON, the company he cofounded, he has
been mainly working on Java-based solutions for social networking
software. Because he can't make a choice between embedded development
and enterprise development, his main focus is on end-to-end Java,
combining the strengths of backend systems and embedded devices. His
favorite technologies are currently Java EE/Glassfish at the backend and
JavaFX at the frontend. Johan's blog can be followed at http://blogs.lodgon.com/johan, he tweets at http://twitter.com/johanvos.
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