About Carl Dea
I‘ve not blogged in awhile, and I miss sharing with others about all things JavaFX (My day job and family are likely excuses). For those who are new to this blog, I am the author of JavaFX 2 Introduction by Example (JIBE), co-author of Java 7 Recipes, and technical reviewer of the Pro JavaFX 2 books from Apress publishing. For those who already know me, I’d like to thank you for supporting me and the other authors by purchasing these books. More importantly, my hope is to reach out to Java enthusiasts and share ideas.
The book JavaFX 2 Introduction by Example, was published in Nov. 2011 and many more APIs were added since then. During the writing of the book, I was working on the early editions of JavaFX 2.0 up until the announcement at JavaOne Oct. 2011. It was pretty crazy trying to update the book based on API changes as things were almost set in stone. I thought it was amazing how it even got out the door. However, I was pretty pleased. Some of you who have read the beginning of the book (JIBE) understand that the chapters of JIBE are also found in the book Java 7 Recipes (actually it is originally taken from Java 7 recipes). This little fact explains why the book, JavaFX 2 Introduction by Example, is reminiscent of recipe or cookbook style technical books. My intent was to help the reader get introduced quickly without a lot of tech blather. Instead of trying to convince people about the JavaFX platform, I’d rather demonstrate things with useful examples. I find it counter productive discussing deep philosophical debates regarding why one particular technology is superior to the other (cheesy 80′s
Source : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/07/introduction-by-example-javafx-8-printing.html
