Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
JavaFX with Style: Using Clojure, fn-fx and garden for desktop application design
Here is a quick introduction to style your Clojure JavaFX application via CSS using the garden library. Intro I am still working on a desktop application built with Clojure and fn-fx and I am making good progress, pretty happy with it so far. When I gave a talk about it at the Clojure meetup Berlin, […]
Building declarative GUIs with Clojure, JavaFX and fn-fx (Clojure Berlin Meetup talk)
A few days ago I gave a talk at the Clojure Meetup Berlin about building GUIs with Clojure and JavaFX. Here is the abstract: Building declarative GUIs with Clojure, JavaFX and fn-fx (Dr. Nils Blum-Oeste) JavaFX is the current standard GUI framework included in most Java distributions and the successor to Swing. It is readily […]
Getting rid of Facebook on your Spotify account
When Spotify started, they only allowed to create accounts via your Facebook account. Well this sucked of course, and they moved away from that. However, having signed up at that time, I was stuck with having to use Facebook to get access to my Spotify account. Of course one could easily create a new account […]
Sorting out projects – Starting new ones
Who doesn’t know about having too many projects at hand? Guess I am not different, probably rather on the more excessive side of things here. Having finished my PhD and getting some personal issues sorted out, I feel having capacity and the drive to get my hands dirty again. Among the things I already started […]
Color Duel: A pet project game built with Construct 2
Being an early adaptor for Construct 2, it was about time to get a game built with it out of the door. I think I bought this in 2011 for 30€ or something like that. With an increasing interest in educational apps and new teaching and learning approaches I finally dug into Construct 2, building […]
PomodoroEasy: Prelaunch access to the upcoming Pomodoro app
If you stumbled across my article series about how to build a webapp, you already know: I am working on an app to bring the awesome Pomodoro Technique to life on your machines. The Pomodoro Technique is a great, hassle free way to boost you productivity. The main goal is to focus on your tasks […]