Archive for February, 2008

JavaFX Script Presentation at NCAR

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Last Wednesday I had the privilege of being invited to speak about JavaFX at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. It was a great audience with some very interesting questions. Thanks to Ken Kim and his team for a great speaking experience.

Also, thanks to these folks, the JavaFX Script slides I was presenting got awarded “Slideshow of the Day” on slideshare.net for a second time in just one week. These slides were the most viewed and downloaded of any slides on the site. Very exciting.

JavaFX Presentation with Jim Weaver

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Jim Weaver gave an excellent talk on JavaFX Script last night at the Boulder Java Users Group. He had deep code examples and showcased his NFJS-style winner-wheel example. Always a hit with the audience. His blog has entries about it can be found here and here. I did a little intro talk prior to that on JavaFX Script as well. My slides can be found at slideshare.net along with some of our other past DOSUG presentations as well (just search for DOSUG in the search box).

How To Remove Stuck Sidebar Items in MacOS

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Well, here’s one of those things that isn’t Mac-easy on Mac OS. Say you create a sidebar link to a server. Say you no longer have access to that server. Whoa. Can’t click on it and remove it. Just keeps popping up an error message. Well, it turns out you have to follow these instructions and edit the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file to purge the offending link. Come on! You have to be kidding Steve, right?