JavaFX Preview SDK finally released !

As promised by Sun MicroSystem, the long awaited and widely anticipated JavaFX Preview SDK is officially released in July, just a day before August. Touted as a answer to Adobe’s Flex/AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight, JavaFX competes by leveraging on a new scripting language, aka JavaFx Scipt, and a rich Java ecosystem and infrastructure. Since it [...]

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Tip<Java>: Difference between ActionListener and ItemListener

For those who been using Swing to develop Desktop Application will undoubtedly find that it is one of the most flexible and API-rich toolkit available. However such power comes at a price of complexity due to many ways of accomplishing the same task. This post will talk about the common listeners that often confused both [...]

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Review<Song>: Angelic voice of 蔡淳佳

Geezer: <CH> for all songs | 陪我看日出 | 恋之憩 by 蔡淳佳 | 恋之憩 by 姜鄠 |  庆幸有你爱我 | 有一天我会

If there is a female Singapore singer whose voice is as beautiful as her look then 蔡淳佳 easily qualifies the accolade. This pretty singer possess a very sharp, clear and mesmerising voice that bring [...]

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Review<Song>: Rainbow Connection with the Muppets

  
It might have been more than 20 years ago since I first encountered the Muppet Show. During that time, I were just a small kid who favourite past-time is to watch TV while crunching snack. The TV is a big media then with tons of interesting programmes. The Muppet Show is just one [...]

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Understanding GPL Open Source license through Scenarios

Open source license even to this day can be a source of confusion. There are many open source licenses but the most popular and restrictive is the GPL license. GPL is a very popular license for those who want their works to benefit from community work and recognition while at the same time retaining control [...]

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Generating Animated Progress GIF image the easy way

  Animated progress GIF image is a very simple yet powerful way to provide feedback to running operation. It doesn’t require any programming and all modern web browsers and Java support it. However for those who want to generate a quick and nice looking progress GIF may be up to some challenges. For all [...]

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Image mess-up in post

I have to apologise that sometimes the images are mess-up in various posts. I do not have solution to this problem as apparently it seems like a issue in WordPress.com and has been formally reported before.  This occurrence happens once a while without warning and so if I happen to update a post with image [...]

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Java<Tip>: Passing multiple flags using a parameter of a method

Every Programmer should be familiar of passing a parameter to a method since this is the most basic thing to do in Java. The important main method (public static void main(String… args) to which a class can run itself is a example of a static method that accept a string array object as argument. Java [...]

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Using the ‘enhanced’ NanoXML, the extremely compact Java XML Parser

Introduction
The proliferation of XML for data interchange and configuration file format have resulted in numerous open-source Java XML Parser libraries (left image). Indeed, Java includes its own full-fledged XML library obviating the need to download additional XML library. However, the in-built and majority of open-source Java XML Parsers tend to suffer from few considerable [...]

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Tip<Java>: Learning to use open-source Java library

Just looking at , there are no lack of excellent open-source projects to choose from.  The site contains a large repository of open-source projects ever conceived.  There are many interesting projects comprising application and library that one can download and use it subjected to the open-source license like GPL, LGPL. In this post, the [...]

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