Interview with Simon Phipps about Open Source
It's very very good so start downloading right now!
Today I was catching up with a bunch of FLOSS Weekly podcast episodes. One episode really cought my attention, the FLOSS Weekly 39: Simon Phipps episode. Simon Phipps is the chief open source officer of Sun Microsystems and talks about open source in general, having a business strategy based on open source and how Sun has come to be the company it is today in regard of open source. It's an amazing interview!
Have you ever been in a discussion with someone about Open Source and the reason either for it to exist or for a company do adopt it? I have, and I always struggle with the explanation. I usually find it difficult to give a conclusive explanation of the business value of open source. Usually I get the feeling that the person I'm failing to convince just get's reinforced in his or hers opposite beliefs. I'm always annoyed by that since I know that open source is a good thing and for that reason I tend to stay away from trying to convince people.
I think listening to this interview can answer all of those questions with an intelligent diskussion. I will listen to it several more times for sure!
More people must have found it good since in the following FLOSS Weekly episode 40 the hosts Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte talked about the positive feedback and how Simon Phipps appearently had got so much into the discussion that he now was thinking about writing a book. I would pre-order that book today!
I just feel good right now, I love hearing really smart people talking about great things like this :)
Tapestry 5 and GWT - part 2.5
The source code for part 1 & 2
The source code
I should have done this a long time ago, but here we go. The code for the Tapestry 5 and GWT tutorial part 1 and part 2:Download NetBeans project
The following versions of GWT and Tapestry5 are used as well as their respective dependencies that can be found on their sites.
- GWT 1.4.60 - http://code.google.com/webtoolkit
- Tapestry 5.0.15 - http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5
JavaFX, WidgetFX and my first widget
A few tips & tricks, a little DiskSpace Widget
I became interested in the early version of the JavaFX Script language, F3 script, thanks to the nice GUI and graphics demos. I'm guessing I'm not alone in that :)
Anyway, the preview release of the JavaFX SDK was released a while ago and I looked at it with some interest. I became more interested in actually doing something with it when I saw the
WidgetFX project, simply becuase I like the idea of widgets/gadgets etc. Until now I haven't been able to develop and run them in a Java environment.
I also saw the oppertunity to actually learn JavaFX Script since widgets are a really good way to make a really small, but still useful application, while getting to know the language.
If you're interested in developing widgets you really should check out the WidgetFX Developers Google group.
People like Stephen Chin, who's been answering loads of my questions :), are really good at answering all kinds of questions about WidgetFX!
It took me quite a lot of time to get at least a bit used to declarative UIs. I'm still not there, but I've made some progress and it's fun.
| This is just a small post about my first widget, a disk space monitor. It's not a step by step tutorial, more of a tips and tricks for a beginner. I've included stuff I've learned when working with the JavaFX Script language and the WidgetFX API. It'll require at least some basic knowledge of the JavaFX script language. |
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| Read on, visit the quite sparse DiskSpace Widget page or try it out right now. |
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