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by Chet Haase, August 31, 2010,  Submit comment
With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how to use the Parallel and Sequence effects to choreograph complex effects.
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by Chet Haase, August 28, 2010,  Submit comment
With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how to use the new component architecture in Flex 4 to create custom skins for standard UI components.
by Sean Landis, August 26, 2010,  25 comments
Sean Landis, author of Agile Hiring, lists ten ways an employer can screw up an on-site interview.
by Martin Odersky, from Scalazine, August 24, 2010,  16 comments
In the first of a series of articles on the latest Scala release, Scala 2.8, Martin Odersky discusses the new collections API.
by Chet Haase, August 23, 2010,  Submit comment
With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how the new graphics primitives in Flex 4 use linear gradients to get a richer look.
by Bruce Eckel, from Computing Thoughts, August 17, 2010,  38 comments
It's been taking forever to open-source Java. Oracle's lawsuit with Google makes me wonder if it's ever going to happen.
Posted by Bill Venners, August 14, 2010,  Submit comment
Today Artima released the final version of Flex 4 Fun in PDF form. The paper book is in production at the printer and will be available in early September.
Posted in Java Community News for Bill Venners, August 14, 2010,  2 comments
This week Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google alleging infringement of Java-related patents and copyrights in Android.
by Chet Haase, August 12, 2010,  Submit comment
With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how the new graphics primitives in Flex 4 use fills to achieve different rendering effects for the shapes.
by Chet Haase, August 2, 2010,  Submit comment
With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how the new graphics primitives in Flex 4 use strokes to achieve different rendering effects for their outlines.
by Michele Simionato, from The Explorer, July 27, 2010,  13 comments
Removing the hype around the multicore (non) revolution and some (hopefully) sensible comment about threads ad other forms of concurrency.
by Chet Haase, July 24, 2010,  Submit comment
With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how to use Flex transitions to animate changes in application state to help the user stay connected to the application experience.
by Sean Landis, July 23, 2010,  41 comments
Sean Landis, author of Agile Hiring, discusses why he thinks sloppy résumés should not be tolerated.
by Eric Armstrong, from Cool Tools and Other Stuff, July 21, 2010,  62 comments
In which I argue that (a) Generics have done egregious harm to both the elegance and readability of the Java language and, (b) they prove by example that static type checking is a linguistic dead-end. Are you persuaded? Do you agree? Read on...
Posted by Frank Sommers, July 14, 2010,  11 comments
Following over a year of development and many interim snapshots, Scala 2.8 Final was released today. The latest version of the statically typed JVM language sports many new features, such as a redesigned collections library, significantly enhanced Actors, support for continuations, type specialization, and a host of other capabilities.
by Chet Haase, July 7, 2010,  Submit comment
With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how Flex 4 enables a new, declarative model of drawing custom graphics objects in Flex code.
by Sean Landis, July 1, 2010,  35 comments
Sean Landis, author of Agile Hiring, describes why he thinks hiring should be considered a core competence of software organizations and an important skill for software professionals.
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