JavaOne slides & Thanks for listening

I just wanted to say thank you to all who came to my talk today. Especially as I know there was a much higher profile JavaFX Graphics talk going on in another room at the same time. (Yes, that was a bit demoralising!)

I deliberately skipped some of the technical slides in the presentation -- this is because they are particular to JavaFX Script (deprecated in 2.0). The slides were the top few most hair-pulling bugs we came across in our JavaFX Script code. Things my team wished someone had told us before we started.

But to make sure you don't hit the same issues if you do any JavaFX Script, I have uploaded all the slides (including those) to Slideshare. The code examples should explain the problems reasonably well, and if not then please do ask.

Those slides are tucked in at the end of the presentation (91-106!). No, I didn't really expect to have time to show them -- when the 2.0 changes were announced, I thought it would be more useful to talk about the practical impact of the "death of Script", rather than talk about some technical traps in a language that's been discontinued.

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Things to expect in my JavaOne talk on JavaFX, OSGi, and the science of good (medical) conversation

Things to expect in my talk on Wednesday at JavaOne:

Wed 22nd Sept, 16:45 Hilton San Francisco, Golden Gate 3:
Visualizing the Science of Conversation with JavaFX and OSGi to Save Lives. William Billingsley, senior research engineer, NICTA
Session S313951

1. A JavaFX demo that isn't yet another video wall.  Not even wrapped around a big ball and rolling down a slide into yet another video wall.
2. The fastest, and hopefully clearest, introduction to OSGi.  We use OSGi on the client
3. A little commentary on the JavaFX 2.0 changes.  How to sensibly use JavaFX 1.3 given it requires you to use JavaFX Script and that's going away next version.
4. Programming as experimentation.  What do you do when it's actually a requirement that your requirements are unknown, and the goal of your software is to mine how your non-yet-users think.
5. What the picture below means, and why JavaFX on Mac finds it harder than a video wall.
   
   
   
   
6. How OSGi lets us build the great wall of science...
   
   
   
   ...how this picture knows what you're talking about...
   
   
   
   
   ...and how this one knows how hard you were thinking when you said it.
   
   
   

Science, JavaFX, and OSGi: appearing this week at JavaOne

On Wednesday, I'm giving a talk at JavaOne on how my team is using JavaFX to analyse and visualise medical conversations -- JavaFX in a scientific app, all pluggable and extensible via OSGi.

Wed 22nd Sept, 16:45 Hilton San Francisco, Golden Gate 3:
Visualizing the Science of Conversation with JavaFX and OSGi to Save Lives. William Billingsley, senior research engineer, NICTA
Session S313951

There have been a few lists of interesting JavaFX talks at JavaOne posted to Twitter and on the Web, and a few of those lists haven't included my talk. How to scare a speaker in one easy step: post a list of interesting talks on his topic and don't include his!

So, I just wanted to reassure anyone who's thinking of coming to my talk that yes it is on, and it should be relevant and interesting. (Or if it's not interesting, tell me off!)

A little later, I'll post more on what you can expect to hear at my talk.