DataFX

In this post I will show the easiest way how a rounded image can be defined in CSS. This example is for HTML. If you want to create a rounded image with JavaFX you should read this post. An image is defined by the img tag. To define some CSS for the ... [More] image we should add a style class like "avatar": https://gist.github.com/hendrikebbers/8e548bd7b380b73c1929 In this first example I will show how you can define a rounded image for a square image. To do so we define the size of the image in CSS: https://gist.github.com/hendrikebbers/68b1dc1e9cacb9f50db1 Once this is done it's quite easy [...] [Less]

When creating a new control or a complete application I often ask myself what colors I should use for visualization. When defining a control the best solution is to provide properties for all colors. By doing so a developer that uses the component ... [More] can configure it to match the needed color scheme. But still when developing only a control you should provide a color scheme as a default configuration. Here it's important the the colors of the default configuration fit to each other. If you develop a complete application the selection of a specific color scheme is even more important. [...] [Less]

When creating a new control or a complete application I often ask myself what colors I should use for visualization. When defining a control the best solution is to provide properties for all colors. By doing so a developer that uses the component ... [More] can configure it to match the needed color scheme. But still when developing only a control you should provide a color scheme as a default configuration. Here it's important the the colors of the default configuration fit to each other. If you develop a complete application the selection of a specific color scheme is even more important. [...] [Less]

For JavaLand 2015 we (Canoo) created some small reference cards for technologies that we are currently involved in or committed to. For the conference the printed the reference cards in high quality and today I thought that the content might be interested for all the developers that didn't attend the conference :) Therefore I uploaded [...]

For JavaLand 2015 we (Canoo) created some small reference cards for technologies that we are currently involved in or committed to. For the conference the printed the reference cards in high quality and today I thought that the content might be ... [More] interested for all the developers that didn't attend the conference :) Therefore I uploaded the reference cards as pdf files to my blog. The cards are written in German. Web Components Reference Card JavaFX Reference Card Open Dolphin Reference Card  Hopefully we will add a Dolphin Platform RefCard for JavaLand 2016 :) [Less]

For JavaLand 2015 we (Canoo) created some small reference cards for technologies that we are currently involved in or committed to. For the conference the printed the reference cards in high quality and today I thought that the content might be ... [More] interested for all the developers that didn't attend the conference :) Therefore I uploaded the reference cards as pdf files to my blog. The cards are written in German. Web Components Reference Card JavaFX Reference Card Open Dolphin Reference Card  Hopefully we will add a Dolphin Platform RefCard for JavaLand 2016 :) [Less]

If you visited JavaOne this year you should have noticed the Voting Machines that were placed at each session room at JavaOne. By using this machines you had the chance to give a vote for the current session. If you liked the session you simple pressed the green Duke, if you didn't liked the presentation [...]

If you visited JavaOne this year you should have noticed the Voting Machines that were placed at each session room at JavaOne. By using this machines you had the chance to give a vote for the current session. If you liked the session you simple ... [More] pressed the green Duke, if you didn't liked the presentation you choosed the red Duke and if it was quite ok you selected the Duke in the middle. Here you can see an image of a final machine at JavaOne: In this post I will show how we created the Voting Machines and the problems [...] [Less]

If you visited JavaOne this year you should have noticed the Voting Machines that were placed at each session room at JavaOne. By using this machines you had the chance to give a vote for the current session. If you liked the session you simple ... [More] pressed the green Duke, if you didn't liked the presentation you choosed the red Duke and if it was quite ok you selected the Duke in the middle. Here you can see an image of a final machine at JavaOne: In this post I will show how we created the Voting Machines and the problems [...] [Less]

Starting with version 0.7 the Dolphin Platform JavaScript and Polymer API has been released. Now you can easily create desktop, mobile and web clients for your application by using the same controller and presentation model. You only need to change the thin view layer. The Dolphin Platform repository at GitHub already contains a small client [...]