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

A Pattern for Creating Custom Android Content Providers

Posted Saturday, November 19, 2011

When creating apps in Android, you have access to numerous data sources. In fact, Android comes with a built-in instance of SQLite, provides access data to local storage, gives direct access to remote resources over HTTP. In additions to these native dmore »

Loader/Launcher – A Pattern to Bootstrap Java Applications

Posted Friday, October 7, 2011

There is still a great number of Java developers out there who are not doing web apps. They use the JDK’s Java launcher directly to bootstrap their apps using public static void main() (abbreviated thereafter as PSVM). And if you are one of those develmore »

Try to Be Like Steve

Posted Wednesday, October 5, 2011

All of us in the tech field (specially those in position to create) have an undeniable responsibility to those who use our creation. Steve showed that our creation can be imaginative, usable, and of quality. He showed us that user experience is also a fmore »
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by Vladimir Vivien

JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook Buy from Amazon
Price: $39.99
  • 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.