Joshua Marinacci's Blog

The votes are in.

I've got a free moment here at the MidWest Tech Days (and if you are in the MidWest you should be here too!) so I thought I would tally the votes generated by my previous blog: You vote for your favorite article and I'll write it!

Before I get to the results themselves I must say that I was quite surprised by the response. 34 comments with some very good suggestions. I'm glad to see that there is such passion in these topics.

So here's the breakdown (and please correct me if I miscounted) :

• Graphic Design for Engineers: 18
• Intro to Painters: 14
• JavaFX Script: 10
• JXMapViewer: 8
• Swing App & Beans Binding in NetBeans: 7
• Nice feedback with Drag and Drop in Java 6.0: 2
• 1 each for JNLP'd Derby driven app and some stuff with lucene / solr / hibernate

I'm surprised that the JXMapViewer was so popular, and that the Swing App Framework and Beans Binding in NetBeans was so low. Most of all, however, I'm quite surprised to see the graphic design article score so high. Clearly "making GUIs that don't suck" is a high priority for a lot of you.

Thank you all for your feedback. It looks like I've got some writing to do. Keep watching for new articles coming soon.

Comments

• I didn't vote because I was out, but if you're still counting I vote for JXMapViewer as well. I'm particularly interested in how to use it if I don't have an internet connection. I currently have something that uses an ESRI product and there are some .sid files (which I know almost nothing about) for aerial photography. Is there some way I can use this imagery?

  Posted by: brantboehmann on September 26, 2007 at 10:02 AM

• Count me in for:
  * JXMapViewer
  * Swing App & Beans Binding in NetBeans
  Thanks!
  

  Posted by: greenido on September 27, 2007 at 01:52 PM

• Maybe the usual nature of your blog attract more "graphic oriented" readers, so it is not a big surprise. I read you as a graphic widgets consumer. Maybe most readers are, or want to be, graphic widgets developers
  But it is really sad that almost nobody is willing to write "real-world" articles about beansbinding, app framework and db crud apps. I think that is a fact that is preventing desktop java apps getting bigger audience.
  If you, or anyone else, can help me with writing guidelines I could try to write such article, starting from a not-so-simple database model (postgresql oriented) and implementing CRUD funcionality using swing and swingx libraries.

  Posted by: dags on September 28, 2007 at 05:38 AM

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