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How To Build JavaFX Dialogs and Alerts

Java

In this How To article I demonstrate some of the different ways that JavaFX dialogs and alerts are built and controlled. As a learning and exploration aid the code samples in this article have been integrated into a larger JavaFX application, JavaFX Dialog Explorer, that demonstrates usability of the various dialogs and alerts discussed as well as sources the various parts of this article's code snippets along with the official JavaFX 11 documentation using the WebView component.

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By Adam McQuistan on 08/12/2019
JavaFX Gradle

JavaFX with Gradle, Eclipse, Scene Builder and OpenJDK 11: Refactor with FXML and Scene Builder

Java

In this final article of an introductory series on building desktop apps using JavaFX with Gradle, Eclipse, and Scene Builder I refactor the previously built random number app using FXML along with the amazing Scene Builder design tool from Gluon. JavaFX's FXML views provide an excellent way to separate out UI presentation from the behavior and logic coded into controllers and models. When paired with Scene Builder the experience translates into efficient prototyping and full on design of UIs.

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By Adam McQuistan on 08/09/2019
FXML Eclipse JavaFX Gradle Java

JavaFX with Gradle, Eclipse, Scene Builder and OpenJDK 11: Java Coded Components

Java

In this second article I will be building out the Random Number generator app described in the opening blog post to give a gentle introduction of the JavaFX framework. For this article I will be forgoing the use of FXML views and the SceneBuilder design tool to give the reader a taste of how a Java code only approach is done. In the next post I will refactor using SceneBuilder and FXML view files to contrast this approach.

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By Adam McQuistan on 07/31/2019
JavaFX Gradle Java

JavaFX with Gradle, Eclipse and, Scene Builder on OpenJDK11: Project Setup

Java

The web is a preferred choice for software due to the ubiquity and accessibility of browsers but, exceptions exist necessitating the need for a quality desktop app platform such as the need to lockdown data to a few geographically close computers or desire to restrict internet connectivity from a particular app. Surprisingly, this can be common for high-tech fields like science and medicine which rely on the exceptional Java platform and JavaFX framework for quality desktop software.

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By Adam McQuistan on 07/27/2019
Eclipse JavaFX Gradle Java

High Level Introduction to Java for Developers

Java

This article is a high level overview of the Java programming language intended for software developers proficient in other languages such as JavaScript, Python, C++, ect. The reader is expected to be familar with general programming constructs and the OOP paradigm. I draw some correlations among other language features here and there but, the intent is not to provide a comparative analysis between Java and other such languages.

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By Adam McQuistan on 07/23/2019
Intro to Java Gradle Java

Deploying a Python Text Analytics App with Flask, uWSGI and Nginx

Python

This is a continuation from Building a Text Analytics App in Python with Flask, Requests, BeautifulSoup, and TextBlob and will focus on deploying the previously built app to a cloud hosted Ubuntu LTS v18 server. For this article I will be running the Flask app within the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) compliant Python application server known as uWSGI. The Flask app / uWSGI server will sit behind an Nginx web server which serves static content plus reverse proxy non-static requests to uWSGI

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By Adam McQuistan on 07/20/2019
uWSGI Nginx DevOps Flask Python

Building a Text Analytics App in Python with Flask, Requests, BeautifulSoup, and TextBlob

Python

This article introduces how to build a Python and Flask based web application for performing text analytics on internet resources such as blog pages. To perform text analytics I will utilizing Requests for fetching web pages, BeautifulSoup for parsing html and extracting the viewable text and, apply the TextBlob package to calculate a few sentiment scores.

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By Adam McQuistan on 07/15/2019
Web Scraping BeautifulSoup requests TextBlob Flask Python

Beginner's Guide to Gradle for Java Developers

Java

In this tutorial I will be describing how to get up and going quickly with Gradle demonstrating what I feel are the most important concepts and features needed as a Java developer just gettings started with Gradle. Gradle is a powerful, ultra flexible, build system popular in the Java (or more broadly JVM based) development ecosystem. Gradle has many amazing features such as dependency management, build configurations and tasks, with core as well as third party plugins and lots more.

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By Adam McQuistan on 06/28/2019
Build Systems DevOps Gradle

How To Clone Java Collections with Streams

Java

This How To features using streams in the Java programming language to make "safe" deep clones of collections of objects.The cloning (aka, copying) of objects in Java has been an arduous task since its inception. Partly due to the way the `Object#clone` method was designed then oddly paired with the `Cloneable` interface and also complicated by the way reference types, or objects, work in concert with collections in OOP based languages.

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By Adam McQuistan on 06/22/2019
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