This month not much changed in the index. Objective-C and Go are still scoring all time highs, while staying close to each other. There are 4 programming languages that have a realistic chance of entering the top 20 next month. These are educational language Scratch, functional language Erlang and JVM languages Scala and JavaFX Script.
Just a quick heads-up: If you have an android mobile device and want to have some fun with
augmented reality, go on the five-minute augmented-reality scavenger hunt. See my aug.mx blog post for details.
Update 10-Feb-2010: Congratulations to Dave Pease of Liverpool, UK, who was the first one to successfully complete the five-minute augmented reality scavenger hunt! Dave walked to the other side of the augmented reality 3D snowman, and identified that the symbol on his back is a Christmas tree! Dave sent a screen shot from the Layar Mobile Browser running on his Android as proof:
Quoting Dave: "Here's the evidence. I would have got closer, but it would have involved trespassing and possibly receiving numerous dog bites!"
I don't blame you, Dave. I hear that blokes in Liverpool don't take well to people walking around their back yards pointing mobile phones in the air 
Congrats, Dave!
Jim Weaver
Just a quick heads-up: If you have an android mobile device and want to have some fun with
augmented reality, go on the five-minute augmented-reality scavenger hunt. See my aug.mx blog post for details.
Have fun!
Jim Weaver
I’ve been a serious Opera user since the first version of the Opera 9 series, and I’m currently running Opera 10.5 pre-alpha. It is a great product and it indeed does make web development fun. I do almost all my web development in Opera and only test in other browsers when I need to. However, I’ve been meaning to try out JavaFX for a while now, but I’ve not made the switch to it yet, simply because Opera does not support the new Java Plugin 2 which is required for running JavaFX applets. JavaFX has been around for at least a year now, and I’ve not found a tangible reason why it should/does not work in Opera.
Some months ago after some serious pondering of the advantages versus the disadvantages, I’ve decided to port my swing application to javafx. It was a perfect match for all my application needs, it was perfect for the animation part since all of it was structured to work as a scene graph. All the scene graph features missing in my swing implementation were already available in javafx, together with a couple other things that I needed.
I’m proud to announce the release of FEST-JavaFX-Maven 1.0a1! FEST-JavaFX-Maven is Maven plugin for compiling JavaFX source files. This is a complete rewrite of the plugin, as a Java Mojo.
I started experimenting with JavaFX1.2. I felt writing complex special effects or writing Animation code in JavaFX is very simple. In a very short time I am able to produce complex visual effects which previously took days to create in Java 2D.
Check out the following Animation.I am using Netbeans 6.8 and Inkscape 4.7 for creating Vector images.
(Note that my primary interest in creating this Animation is to learn JavaFX Script, I have not optimized it for performance or start up time. Code is not clean as there are lot of unnecessary methods and animation logic, I will publish the cleaned source soon.)
You can click on it and create more plants.
Java Web Start (save this Java webstart JNLP file and run it)
Filed under: animation, graphics, illustrator 
