Nighthacking in Basel: the aftermath

Steve's Nighthacking tour made a stop in Basel today. We met at the Canoo office right after lunch time. Gerrit Grunwald (a.k.a. @hansolo_) was the first interviewee; he showed a very cool JavaFX visualization app running on an embedded device (BeagleBoard) connected via XMPP to a desktop app (also JavaFX) and an iPad app (sadly not JavaFX (yet!)). I have the privilege to work with Gerrit which means I sometimes can catch a glimpse of what he shows before anyone else, however he doesn't cease to amaze me.

Then may turn came, and after giving Gerrit a bit of grief because he showed little code (boooo!) I proceed to show as much code as possible . Here's a link to the interview, where you can see cool stuff like a fully i18n JavaFx + Griffon application, GroovyFXPad and SwingPad for quick prototyping of JavaFX/Swing UIs, and more; hope you find it enjoyable!

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Don't forget Steve will continue the tour for the next 2 weeks, there's plenty of opportunities to interact with him and the rest of the nighthackers.

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