JavaFX for dummies

Reading JavaFX for Dummies these last summer days!

In the beginning there was AWT, the Abstract Window Toolkit. AWT was Java’s first system for displaying window-based user interfaces in Java. AWT begat Swing, which soon became the preferred way to create user-friendly applications in Java.

But then there was JavaFX, the worthy successor to the GUI throne. JavaFX is designed to create stunning user interfaces that can run on a wide variety of devices, including traditional desktop and portable computers, tablets, smartphones, TV set-top boxes, game consoles, and many other types of devices.

Until recently, JavaFX was the red-headed stepchild of the Java world. It co-existed with Java, but wasn’t an official part of Java. But beginning with Java version 8, JavaFX is now fully integrated into Java. And while JavaFX and Swing coexist today, Oracle has made it clear that Swing is in its twilight and JavaFX represents the future of user-interface programming.

BootStrap

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The Joel Test

The Joel Test

1. Do you use source control?
2. Can you make a build in one step?
3. Do you make daily builds?
4. Do you have a bug database?
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
7. Do you have a spec?
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?
10. Do you have testers?
11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?
12. Do you do hallway usability testing?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

That moment!

All fascinating stuff, but not the vision that was driving Kotok and Samson and the others. They wanted to learn how to WORK the damn machines, and while this new programming language called LISP that McCarthy was talking about in 641 was interesting, it was not nearly as interesting as the act of programming, or that fantastic moment when you got your printout back from the Priesthood—word from the source itself!—and could then spend hours poring over the results of the program, what had gone wrong with it, how it could be improved.

This is so exact!
Taken from: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/729/pg729.html
Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy