Chet Haase's Blog

All Wound Up

All I hear everyone talking about in the community these days is "Open Sores". Man, get a bandage for it and move on already.

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• Chet, you'd better have some nice technical blog post handy to make up for this not so funny joke. We have not seen your other non jokes in a while now.

  Posted by: mikeazzi on November 30, 2006 at 09:03 AM

• Mikeazzi: Most of my technical writing energy is being poured into a book right now, hopefully published at JavaOne. All I have left in the coffer is jokes (some funnier than others...). I'm hoping to do more on the applet-jax thing soon, and I have some other graphics and performance-related topics in mind, but they'll have to wait until the book content is done...

  Posted by: chet on November 30, 2006 at 09:14 AM

• you should do some previews of your book here. The title has me intrigued, now I want to see some content.

  leouser

  Posted by: leouser on December 01, 2006 at 06:58 AM

• leouser:

  Thanks for your interest; I hope it's something you'll find compelling beyond the "Filthy Rich Clients" title (although that continues to be my favorite part of the book). We've actually discussed the content a bit on a group site for the book: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/filthy_rich_clients/. Here's a brief outline that we chucked out there (but which is still valid):

  
  The basic outline is:

  The Beginning
  Graphics for GUI Developers (Swing/2D fundamentals)
  Animation fundamentals
  Timing Framework
  Effects
  Effects
  Effects
  Some French Poetry by Romain*
  Effects
  Effects
  Effects
  The End

  (* optional)

  
  I think the "Graphics for GUI Developers" section (which so far represents about half of the book) should be quite good for anyone doing Swing development that wants to know more about how it all works and how to make it work even better. It covers things like the Swing painting model, use of Java 2D, performance tips, etc.

  
  The animation sections (where my head has been at lately) should get people up to speed on animation basics as well as where the Timing Framework is currently at and where it's going.

  
  The Effects sections are Romain specials; need we say more?

  
  Now, if we can just finish the darn thing...

  
  By the way, we'll be talking about some of this stuff at JavaPolis in Antwerp in 2 weeks, for anyone that happens to be in the area. December in Belgium; it's gonna be waffle...

  Posted by: chet on December 01, 2006 at 03:36 PM

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