Here are the JavaFX Links of the Week 2, February 2010:

JavaFX 1.2.3 was released this week. It’s a maintenance release only (which means there are no new toys to play with). This release had a focus on improving performance, reliability, and download time. Various bugs have been fixed as well.

Long time employee of Sun, and great advocate of both Swing and JavaFX, Josh Marinacci, has announced that he is moving on from Sun/Oracle, taking up a position at Palm.

Simon Morris has posted an interesting tutorial on how to do advanced clipping in JavaFX. Clipping is something that becomes useful once you understand how to use it, so I recommend finding time to read this article.

Drew from Piliq.com continues his exploration intophysics-based games. This week he posted progress in adding parallax scrolling and custom cursors, and also an entirely new demo game.

Speaking of physics games, Mikhail Gorshenev has posted a fun version of Tetris that spices up the original game by requiring you to simply have two or more blocks of the same colour touch. The kicker? The blocks now exhibit physical properties and fall accordingly.

Alex Ruiz has posted a new release of his FEST JavaFX Maven plugin, bumping the version to 1.0 alpha 1. This is a Maven plugin for compiling JavaFX source files.

Vyacheslav Baranov writes about the availability (or not, depending on which OS your software is running on) of Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) support in JavaFX 1.2.

Rakesh Menon has posted sample code to illustrate how to upload files using JavaFX.

Kon at Outrospective.org has posted an overview of the JavaFX 1.2 charting features.

I specially recommend to have a look at the Tetris Game developed by Mikhail Gorshenev I think it is great! So have fun and enjoy coding JavaFX.

(via fxexperience.com)

Here are the JavaFX Links of the Week 1, February 2010:

Jim Weaver sums up the Oracle news this week nice and succinctly: ‘We will invest heavily in JavaFX‘.

The JavaFX tutorial has been updated to include a gentler introduction to data binding and triggers, with a new chapter devoted exclusively to “the basics”. Also, apparently there are plans to include a more advanced article discussing this topic also.

Want tabs in your JavaFX application? Well, today’s your lucky day as toumaille has posted exactly this. His tabbed pane control appears to be well thought out, and may be of use to people out there, certainly until there is an official tab control in JavaFX.

Drew, carrying on his investigation into JavaFX and physics, has put up a JavaFX applet of a very, very simple platform game using real physics.

Exadel released a new version of their JavaFX Plug-In for Eclipse, taking it up to version 1.2.1.

Jim Weaver introduces an interesting visualisation developed in JavaFX by Nik Silver. You can go directly to the visualisation if you are interested in playing with it.

Simon Morris has put up a page that contains all of the demos he wrote whilst writing his book ‘JavaFX in Action’.

Pedro Duque Vieira has written about how he has embedded a JavaFX scene into a Swing application.

Krishna Kishore has created a JavaFX application that grows/animates flowers onto the screen. It’s a rather nice effect, and shows the power of the language given Krishna admits creating this program just to learn the language.

(via jonathangiles.net)

The BBC has started a series called “The Virtual Revolution – How 20 years of the web has reshaped our lives“. The following video represents a great intro to this series:

(via @kidehen)

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Everybody interesting in watching the live event should have a look at ustream.com.

Great event and great device. Will have a try hopefully soon!

Here is the interview of Zuckerberg:

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While trying to upgrade my Wordpress installation from version 2.9 to version 2.9.1 I always got the following error:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1.zip.
Download failed.: Operation timed out with 1201840 out of -1 bytes received
Installation Failed

After doing some research using Google I found a solution to that problem:

You just need to edit the following file in order to increase the download timeout:

/wp-admin/includes/file.php

Near line 461 of file.php change the timeout value from:

$response = wp_remote_get($url, array('timeout' => 60));

to the new value of 120:

$response = wp_remote_get($url, array('timeout' => 120));

Then try again to upgrade your wordpress installation using the automatic upgrade and it should work properly now. Mine did and I am happy again!

Cheers and have fun, and leave me a comment if this post was useful for you!

Herbert

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I wish all of you a Happy New Year and a great party today!

Cheers,

Herbert