I got sick and tired of my JavaFX code not having proper syntax highlighting on my blog and in my presentations, so I extended SyntaxHighlighter to do just that.

How to implement it

First, you’ll want to download SyntaxHighlighter or get the Wordpress plugin (and make a donation, it really is a cool piece of work). Next, unzip or otherwise install it. Download my shBrushJavaFX.js and copy it to <install_directory>/scripts Continue reading →

After seeing all of the hype surrounding JavaFX and it’s recent 1.0 release, I decided to go ahead and play around with it a bit. Here’s a bit of what I learned, and a cool little holiday app you can run.

WTF is JavaFX and why might you care?

JavaFX is basically a way to develop much cooler GUIs with much less effort than Swing and have your app run almost everywhere. I would argue that it’s not as easy as Flex BUT it allows gives you more control.

A little holiday app

If you want to try it out yourself, just run it here (with JavaFX installed) or grab the NetBeans JavaFX project, unzip it, and import it. Here is the code: Continue reading →