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This site is supposed to be a showcase for my thoughts about software engineering, less a personal homepage. If you want to know more about me, invite me to a beer.

 

New Mission Statement for my work as a software developer

06 Apr 2014
Posted by Steven

There have been a lot of changes in the last months. My work as an employed software developer kind of got to a new level because of the changes in my project. I'm learning a whole lot in this project and am looking forward to learn even more. My employer offers me great opportunities and my spare time projects and my mentoring also extend my horizon.

OpenSource Workshop for JavaFX beginners

25 Mar 2014
Posted by Steven

Last week, I gave a JavaFX workshop for my coworkers. It went very well and was a lot of fun! To share knowledge and make my work available to the community, I open sourced the whole workshop at github. There, you find

Screen capture with LICEcap

23 Feb 2014
Posted by Steven

For my last JavaFX articles, I wanted to show the animated results directly at this website. At the time being, there's no guarantee that a visitor can execute an embedded JavaFX application. Because of that, some bloggers tend to embedd youtube videos with their application in action. That too would need some setup (youtube account, making a screen capture video, ... ). So I searched for a simple solution to display screen capture footage directly at a website. Despite it's bad reputation, an animated gif works on every browser I know.

Extendable navigation pane in JavaFX

16 Feb 2014
Posted by Steven

This week, I implemented a navigation pane in JavaFX that can be used to navigate within an application. It has four buttons with icons. At first, only the icon of each button is shown. At MouseOver, the pane expands and shows the button texts. One button can then be choosen and is highlighted with a drop shadow.

Here's the code as a SSCCE.

This is the controller ExtendableNavigation.java:

Extendable search pane in JavaFX

07 Feb 2014
Posted by Steven

Yesterday, I implemented an extendable search pane in JavaFX. Having searched the web for a ready to use component, I found that most of the search panes hover above other nodes. But what if I want to extend the search pane by resizing other nodes, for example the results table? That is the only way to see all search results and all search options at the same time. This is what I build:

SSCCE - Short, Self Contained, Correct Example

06 Feb 2014
Posted by Steven

Reading stackoverflow and blog articles about development, I came across many code snippets and examples. Also, as the author of blog articles and stackoverflow help cries I myself put some of these snippets into the net. Some of the code I've seen and written was good and comprehensible. Some was not. Today I learned about the SSCCE principle that states that example code in forums and articles should be a Short, Self Contained, Correct Example.

Just visit http://sscce.org/ and read for yourself.

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