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Invoke RESTful Web Services from JavaFX

avaFX, a new Sun Microsystems product family (including a scripting language, JavaFX Script), is optimized for implementing rich Internet applications for desktop and mobile devices. It comes bundled with the

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WPF Wonders: Properties and Events

hen Microsoft’s developers invented WPF, they made some fundamental changes in the way things work. Two of those changes redefine the fundamental nature of properties and events. To replace the

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Socialize Your Flash Game with OpenSocial

here are many creative Flash games on the Internet. Most of them are single player games that are deployed on social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace. This article

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How to Use Properties Files in Java

In Java, you can easily create and use a properties file containing name/value pairs. First, make a .properties file?name it Properties.properties. Place key/value pairs such as name = java in

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Truncate a Path String

Sometimes you need to truncate a long path string to make it fit in a control. Currently, there is no .NET class that provides this functionality. The workaround is to

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Speed Up Project Delivery with Repeatability

very environment has them: The dreaded manual tasks that drain productivity from the team and add instability to the processes. We usually dedicate only half our brain power?and never enough

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JavaFX Team Answer the Eager and the Skeptical

Conducting an interview via email can be very convenient. I can formulate my questions exactly the way I mean them (avoiding my propensity for rambling), and the interviewee has the

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Lambda Functions Are Ready for Prime Time

our years ago, I presented a pioneer proposal for adding lambda expressions to standards C++. The lambda proposal has since undergone significant revisions and enhancements. In their new form, C++0x

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Creating Hierarchical Data Structure Mashups

NSI SQL can naturally perform full multi-path hierarchical data query processing that far exceeds the single linear path processing performed by XPath and XQuery today (see the article “Navigationless Database

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Location-Based Services Using CellID in Android

n earlier article about Android showed you how to interface with GPS receivers to obtain the geographical position of a device. However, not all today’s mobile devices have built-in GPS

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How Y!OS Unifies and Expands the Yahoo Ecosystem

As Chief Architect of Platforms at Yahoo, Neal Sample is responsible for defining the technical design for the Yahoo! Open Strategy initiative. Y!OS is a platform that enables third-party developers

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Beginning F#: Card Tricks

hen attempting to learn a new computer language, it’s difficult to find a problem that’s both interesting enough to bother working with and also simple enough to let you concentrate

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WPF Wonders: Getting Started with WPF

indows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has been around for a couple of years now but there are still plenty of developers who don’t really know what it’s all about. Some think

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Using the Final Keyword in Java

Contrary to popular opinion, the compiler cannot safely inline methods that have been declared as final. This is because these methods may have non-final declarations at runtime. For example, suppose

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Trimming Items in a String Array

When you use a For Each loop to iterate through a String Array and perform some action with each item, the change doesn’t affect the String Array itself. Consider the

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Building an Application with the Twitter API

he Getting Started with the Twitter API article described how Twitter’s founders see it as more than simply a web site where people can send short messages to those who

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The Mono 2.0 Offerings for Debian GNU/Linux.

ebian GNU/Linux and Mono are two leaders of open source software. Debian is a Linux distribution with a social contract that places it among the best examples of free and

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Have It Your Way

love to say that I hate to whine, when referring to things about Windows Vista that drive me nuts, but clearly, I don’t hate to whine. I apparently love to

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Legitimize Your Mobile App: Get It Signed

f you’re just setting out to develop your first mobile application, you may still be grappling with the fundamentals of installing SDKs, obtaining hardware, and scaling your application to the

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Getting Started with the Twitter API

When I first heard about twitter.com, a service that lets people publish messages of up to 140 characters at a time and subscribe to other twitterers’ message feeds, I wasn’t