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Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:30pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Gerrit Grunwald, aka @hansolo_ on twitter, has just ported his Swing based gauges and meters framework known as SteelSeries to JavaFX as part of the JFXtras-lab project. I can't tell you how many times since Java AWT first came out, that I have had to use meters…
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One of the cool new features of the JavaFX 2.2 developer preview release is a new Canvas node that allows you to do free drawing within an area on the JavaFX scene similar to the HTML 5 Canvas. You can download this release for Windows, Mac, and Linux from JavaFX Developer Preview.
Being adventurous, I decided to take the JavaFX Canvas for a spin around the block. In doing…
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Dean Iverson and I have been working on an open source project called GroovyFX that provides a Groovy binding that sits on the new JavaFX 2.0 platform. Dean has written a good blog on how to get started with GroovyFX here. It is already a little dated, but if you ignore the JavaFX build numbers and just download the…
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Meta AI released Llama 3, the latest generation of their open-source large language model (LLM) family. The model is available in 8B and 70B parameter sizes, each with a base and instruction-tuned variant. Llama3 outperforms other LLMs of the same parameter size on standard LLM benchmarks.
By Anthony AlfordAzure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
By Steef-Jan WiggersWebAssembly has expanded its scope from browsers to other domains like cloud and edge computing. It uses the WebAssembly Component Model (WCM) to enable seamless interaction between libraries from different programming languages, such as Rust, Python, and JavaScript, promoting a true polyglot programming environment.
By Matt ButcherJobRunr v7 now defaults to virtual threads for applications using JDK 21, optimizing concurrency for I/O-bound tasks and allowing more jobs to run simultaneously. This update maintains compatibility with Java 8 and supports GraalVM native mode. RedisStorageProvider and ElasticSearchStorageProvider are planned to be dropped in future releases. MongoDB driver is also upgraded.
By Shaaf SyedThe latest release of container management tool Podman brings a complete rewrite of the podman machine command to improve hypervisor support on macOS and Windows. Additionally, it now supports OCI artifacts in manifest files, adopts Pasta by default for rootless networking, and improves the containers.conf configuration file.
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JIm,
Thanks for the great presentation last night. We all enjoyed it!
All the best,
Mike
Happy birthday, Jim!