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48hSetting up Vaadin Add-on project(18:36, 04. Feb. 2012)

Have you ever started "new Vaadin Widget" wizard, hacked together a nice component and in the end wondered how exactly am I should have set up this widget project? I am sure you have - and you are not alone. To make the process really easy, I wrote the exact steps for setting up the add-on project environment for my favorite toolchain. Take a look.

48hBuilding Java EE Applications in JavaFX 2.0(18:13, 04. Feb. 2012)

In this article, the first of several in which I explore various options for building Java EE applications in JavaFX 2.0, I perform a direct port of Richard Bair’s FXML+Guice dependency injection example into Spring. (Richard Bair is Oracle’s Chief Architect for the Client Java Platform.) Many developers still believe that Spring is all about XML configuration files, but it has evolved a lot since the early days. I’m going to use Spring’s annotation-based configuration to create a pure Java example (i.e., zero Spring XML) that looks almost identical to the Guice one.

48hFluqi - Ease using jQuery UI with ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC(16:56, 04. Feb. 2012)

The jQuery UI widgets are brilliant. They speed up web development no end with those easy to use controls. The downside is remembering all the HTML mark-up and widget options!

48hwxPython: A Wizard Tutorial(14:30, 04. Feb. 2012)

Mike Driscoll takes a look at wxPython's Wizard Widget (the dialog that you see when you run an installer or set up a template) and covers two examples: one simple, and one complex.

Release Management on the NetBeans Platform: AgroSense(15:26, 03. Feb. 2012)

How #agrosense manages releases of their service platform on the NetBeans RCP.

Better Syntax Coloring for IDEs(18:16, 02. Feb. 2012)

A proposal to improve syntax coloring in Eclipse and other IDEs. Vote Up if you like it!

wxPython: wx.ListCtrl Tips and Tricks(17:12, 02. Feb. 2012)

In this article, we will go over a few tips and tricks for the wx.ListCtrl widget when it’s in “report” mode. Tips include: How to create a simple ListCtrl, sorting the rows of a ListCtrl, making the ListCtrl cells editable in place, associating objects with ListCtrl rows, and alternating the row colors of a ListCtrl.

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