Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.
― Alan Kay
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 […]
Functional GUI programming with Clojure and JavaFX: Meet halgari/fn-fx
As stated in a previous post I am in the process of building a GUI application and I would like to use Clojure for that. In this post I would like to write about my experiences building a small app for evaluation of the halgari/fn-fx Clojure library that aims at building GUIs with JavaFX in […]
Desktop GUIs with Clojure in 2017: What are the options?
As I am in the process of developing an application for data analysis on chemical data the need for building a desktop GUI came up. Why desktop you ask? Excellent question! I think for this particular project, the combination of ease of use, data privacy and performance make it worth exploring an approach with a […]
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 […]