Pushing Pixels

My old blog was on java.net . You can view the list of my old articles and blog entries here.

The list of conferences

• JavaOne ’05 – co-presenter on BoF that introduced Web Services & XML community at java.net. My part was on the jaxb-workshop project (see below).
• DesktopMatters ’07 – “Swing Effects” slides can be found here.
• JavaOne ’07 – co-presenter of the Bringing Life to Swing Desktop Applications technical session and moderator of the Next-Generation UI Elements for Swing Applications birds of feather.
• OSCON ’07 – presenter of the Advanced Effects in Java Desktop Applications technical session. Slides can be found here.
• JavaOne ’08 – co-presenter of the High Resolution Monitors birds of feather. Slides can be found here.
• EclipseCon ’09 – presenter of the On The Shoulders of Giants: Harnessing the Power of Eclipse Enterprise Ecosystem session. Slides can be found here.
• JavaOne ’09 – presenter of the Flamingo: Bringing the Ribbon Component to Swing technical session. Slides can be found here.

Active open source projects

Major projects:

• Flamingo – ribbon component for Swing applications
• Substance – a cross-platform look-and-feel for Swing applications. Includes
  • Plugin for SwingX components
  • Plugin for Flamingo components
• Trident – animation library for Java applications. Includes
  • Onyx animation blueprints for Swing
  • Amber media trend analysis

Minor projects:

• Laf Plugin – support for third-party components in look-and-feel libraries
• Laf Widget – support for common “feel” widgets in look-and-feel libraries
• LightBeam – performance benchmark for Swing look-and-feel libraries
• Rainbow – SVG file viewer that illustrates various animation, transition and translucency techniques.

Past (inactive) open source projects

• BindMark – a comparative benchmark for Java XML binding frameworks and libraries
• Checkers – a collection of Checkers games
• Ixent – a framework for non-photorealistic rendering
• JAXB Workshop – a collection of tools for JAXB 2.0 including Eclipse and IDEA plugins for XJC
• Matrix rain – Matrix screensaver for Swing apps
• Strider – ripple effects for Swing applications.
• Trellis – a collection of Tetris-inspired games
• XSOM – XML Schema Object Model (part of JAXB 2.0). I was a small-time contributor.

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