Vladimir Vivien

Software Developer / Consultant / Author

Vladimir Vivien is a software engineer living in the United States. Past and current experiences include development in Java and C#.Net for industries including publishing, financial, and healthcare. He has a wide range of technology interests including Java, OSGi, Groovy/Grails, JavaFX, SunSPOT, BugLabs, module/component-based development, and anything else that runs on the JVM.

Vladimir is the author of "JavaFX Application Development Cookbook" published by Packt Publishing. He is the creator of the Groovv JmxBuilder open source project, a JMX DSL, that is now part of the Groovy language. Other open source endeavor includes JmxLogger and GenShell. You can follow Vladimir through his blog: http://blog.vladimirvivien.com/, Twitter: http://twitter.com/vladimirvivien, and Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vvivien.

Blog

The JavaFX Cookbook

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2010

You know that feeling you have after you run (if you run) a long distance that you have been trying to break for the longest.  Well, I have that same feeling of hard-work-pays-off with the publishing of my first book "JavaFX 1.2 Application Develop more »

iPhone 3GS + iOS 4.0 = Wait for 4.1

Posted Thursday, July 8, 2010

Couple weeks ago I updated my phone to the new iOS4.  I was excited to be able to play Pandora in the background while texting (or doing whatever else to enjoy multitasking).  After I download the new version of Pandora multitasking, I was abl more »

Google Buys On2. JavaFX Gains?

Posted Wednesday, August 5, 2009

When Google purchased YouTube back in 2006, the Flash video (FLV) format got an astronomical boots almost overnight. The media format became even more popular, the Flash/Flex pair gained notoriety as a viable platform, Adobe fortified its arsenals in th more »
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by Vladimir Vivien

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook Buy from Amazon
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  • This book is a comprehensive collection of recipes that elaborate on known use cases. You will find an organized step-by-step procedure to accomplish each task followed by detailed explanations to better understand how and why each step was undertaken, and many links to online references and other related sections in the book that supplement the subject in question. The book is written so that you can work through the recipes in order or go straight to the recipes that interest you; where a recipe depends on other recipes they are clearly referenced. If you are a Java developer, Rich Internet Application content developer, or graphic designer who wants to build RIAs featuring animations, videos, and other feature-rich content, this book is for you. Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, and JavaFX components is not essential, but will help you exploit this book to your advantage.