by Jasper | Sep 21, 2009 | Java
A new Swing GUI builder tool is out in beta called GUIDE. Looking at the videos on the website it looks impressive. Like a more polished version of Netbeans Matisse with some extra goodies. Mindsilver GUIDE by Jasper | May 12, 2009 | Java, Nimbus
It seemed like it was time to close the polls, I don’t think there is a clear answer across all platforms. On windows there is a clear winner for the native look and that makes sense as Windows LAF has had a huge amount of work put into it over that last 5 years... by Jasper | Mar 25, 2009 | Java, Nimbus
After watching the voting and reading the comments I have noticed two things: First is from 30 votes to 800 votes the percentages have hardly changed which means we seem to be falling on a conclusion. Native LAF has varied from 59% to 63% so nothing major and is a... by Jasper | Mar 16, 2009 | Java, Nimbus
The other day I was discussing with colleagues if Nimbus should be the default LAF(Look and Feel) for Swing application. The current default LAF is Ocean which is a spiced up theme for Metal which has been the Swing default LAF since the beginning. It feels like with... by Jasper | Feb 16, 2009 | JavaFX
The video,slides and demos are now available for the JavaFX Keynote we gave at Devoxx 2008. You can view the full size version HERE. 