Nighthacking in Basel: the aftermath - No Fluff Just Stuff

Nighthacking in Basel: the aftermath

Posted by: Andres Almiray on November 4, 2012

Steve's Nighthacking tour made a stop in Basel today. We met at the Canoo office right after lunch time. Gerrit Grunwald (a.k.a. @hansolo_) was the first interviewee; he showed a very cool JavaFX visualization app running on an embedded device (BeagleBoard) connected via XMPP to a desktop app (also JavaFX) and an iPad app (sadly not JavaFX (yet!)). I have the privilege to work with Gerrit which means I sometimes can catch a glimpse of what he shows before anyone else, however he doesn't cease to amaze me.

Next came my turn, and after giving Gerrit a bit of grief because he showed little code (boooo!) I proceed to show as much code as possible :-D. Here's a link to the interview, where you can see cool stuff like a fully i18n JavaFx + Griffon application, GroovyFXPad and SwingPad for quick prototyping of JavaFX/Swing UIs, and more; hope you find it enjoyable!


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Don't forget Steve will continue the tour for the next 2 weeks, there's plenty of opportunities to interact with him and the rest of the nighthackers.

Andres Almiray

About Andres Almiray

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than 20 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event. https://ch.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray

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