JavaFX – Hands On
The JavaFX 1.0 release was launched in December 2008 after years of development. So what is it? Sun markets JavaFX as a Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform and a tools suite aimed both for...
View ArticleConfiguring Maven to use Java 7 on Mac OS X
Recently I switched to Java 7 and then ran into a couple of issues. I had a Mac with OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and Maven 3.0.4 (Maven installed using “brew install maven”). Both Java 6 and Oracle...
View Article‘Default’ Oracle JVM Flags
Launching a Java Virtual Machine can be as easy as running java -classpath myapp.jar Main or even shorter java -jar myapp.jar if your using the Main-Class attribute in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF. This...
View ArticleScheduled Lambda Execution
In this post we’ll setup a simple system for saving EC2 instance hours by stopping EC2 instances in the evening and starting them again in the morning, but the concepts can be applied to other...
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