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Today (March 12th 2012) I am going to give a talk for the Java User Group Munich. Title: "Das Eclipse 4.x Rendering Konzept: Trennung von Application Model und UI Toolkit"…

In the current JavaFX 2.1 Beta preview (Build 12), the font rendering on LCD screens improved a lot due to sub-pixel font anti-aliasing. Here are 2 screen shots from my…

If you are interested in the Eclipse 4.x Application Platform and happen to live close to Braunschweig (Germany), join my talk for the JUG-Ostfalen: "Was ist neu bei der Eclipse…

On Monday, January 23th, I am going to talk about some cool features of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) at the OOP 2012 conference in Munich. To have a live…

In the next months I am going to give sessions/trainings at several conferences and other events, mostly Eclipse related. I'd be happy to meet you there. January 20th, 7:00 pm…

I wish you all a Happy New Year! During the last weeks I had a bit of spare time and started experimenting with new rendering engines for the Eclipse 4.x…

Inspired by Tom Schindl's e(fx)clipse (see his blog), I have spent some time investigating the CSS styling capabilities of JavaFX 2.0. I have to admit I like it a lot!…

One thing that has bothered me (and recently one of my customers) a lot was that we could not display Eclipse RCP splash screens when starting the application using Java…