Jul/090
JavaFX Hello World
It’s fun to learn new languages and althrough I prefer Actionscript 3 I’m giving JavaFX a shot because it’s been developerd by sun the guys that brought us JAVA. Ive heard of the ten minute JavaFX tutorial. This will be like a three minute tutorial. This screenshot gives an idea of how simple this will be:
Jul/090
Handcrafting a MySQL Database
The natural progression for a developer of web applications is for them to eventually be able to create a solid persistent web application. Solid in that is is robust to scalability and persistent in that the data you create while using it gets stored on the cloud, as it were. Cloud computing is a new way of imagining how data will be handled online. Instead of your data residing on a single hard-drive on your home computer or on a web server somewhere your data will be shifting through the cloud as resources are negotiated automatically to handle the breath of demand for your content.
In this example I’m going to show you how to download, install, create and query a MySQL database. In a future post I’ll show how to connect a JSP page to a database and display some content onto a page. This will be the first steps to creating a Content Management System of sorts, but I’ll leave that for now.
So, First step should be to download MySQL server. if you’ve got a Microsoft computer then choose the download that corresponds to your country. After you’ve downloaded and installed everyting agreeing to everything along the way, you should get to the MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard:
Jul/090
Java Web ‘Hello World’
As a Web Developer I naturally enjoy web development and writing a blog has always been on my mind. I start and stop and start and well. You get the message. I’ve even tried my hand at podcasting. With this post I want to introduce people to the NetBeans IDE and to get us started I want to show how to get a hello world running in java through a JSP page. In the future I’ll talk about Servlets and session handling but for now it’s get up and running time.
I love java for some reason. Maybe because it’s the first language I really sunk my teeth into. Anyhow, first off any aspiring developer should download install and familiarize themselves with an IDE. IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. Some people swear by Eclipse because of its extensibility and it has its uses but for me NetBeans has it made. It’s released by Sun, the JAVA people so it’s got some neat features like auto formatting that make a developers life easier.
So, first you need to travel to NetBeans.org and download the latest version of NetBeans. You should be looking for the Java version or the all version. Really you just want a version that ticks the Java Web and EE box. Oh, and make sure you’ve got JavaScript enabled or you won’t see anything.
