Blog - Page 60

This represents JavaZone to me I'll be flying to Oslo this morning to speak at JavaZone and meet with some local community members, I'm very excited about this! If you are attending JavaZone and haven't yet signed up for the workshop please do so now. We also updated our home page and gallery with some up to date statistics We just pushed out new...

Steve Hannah of new iOS pipeline fame (as well as a ton of open source Codename One libraries and projects you can see here), has just announced one of his more ambitious undertaking: Mirah support for Codename One. Mirah is effectively Ruby without the performance penalty of an overly dynamic language, its compiled to bytecode and can thus be comp...

We've uploaded the full course video cast as a youtube playlist, just go thru the parts and in an hour and some change you should understand the basics of creating a simple Codename One client server application that runs on all mobile devices. The Udemy course is still there and probably useful if you live in a region where youtube is blocked. The...

As you know we will be presenting Codename One in our booth at JavaOne and would be using several community applications to demonstrate what you have achieved using the tool we built. We think you are our best spokes persons and we think we can provide a platform to expose your application to more people. If you created an outstanding app that we ...

After a while with several new features being off by default we are officially flipping the switch on newer functionality in the build arguments. Notice that you can always disable this new functionality by explicitly defining the appropriate build argument, however you should probably let us know what isn't working for you. We are turning on the ...

I've been working on demos for JavaZone and built something small that has been asked a few times. Some developers were looking for URLImage support in image viewer but that's not a very good approach since URLImage expects images to be at a specific resolution and is thus very bad for images with unknown dimensions. However, ImageViewer thrives on...

JavaZone just released their traditional annual clip which is especially amusing for fans of the Song Of Ice & Fire series (or the Game Of Thrones TV adaptation). If you haven't seen the clips from these guys before you MUST check them out here, including spoofs of house of cards and breaking bad (not to mention years of hilarious clips)! Very coo...

Dealing with the new Mavericks release of Mac OS has proved to be remarkably challenging but hopefully this is finally behind us and we can slowly upgrade our machines to the new Mac OS. This required some overhaul of our build process but should simplify the process of procuring more servers. iOS builds should now spend less time in the queued sta...

Despite quite a few regressions with the new VM we were finally able to make some major improvements to its performance and bring it on-par with native. Its still not as fast as it could be but coupled with the far improved GC and far superior synchronization its probably a better choice in terms of performance than the old VM. We are still heavily...

Microbenchmarks are often derided in the Java community with some good reason, they show edge cases that either present the JIT in a bad light or show it as ridiculously (unrealistically) fast. However, with static compilers and translation tools microbenchmarks can give us insight into performance problems that normal profilers might not provide i...