SPOILER ALERT
If you don't want to know how the inauguration of President Elect Barrack Obama went (presumably you've taped it) then skip the next paragraph.
I watched the news yesterday and saw the inauguration of President Obama and one message/thought/feeling seemed to be flowing out of America - hope for the future. The oath was fumbled a bit but that made it seem all the more human. In many ways it kind of reminded of the Labour election victory in 1997 over here [the UK]. Of course, that was by comparison much a lower key event but the message of hope was there as well. People well and truly though the country had turned a corner.
And the other thing this reminded me of was the JavaFX platform. For years now the java developers have been stuck on the server side. Applets went nowhere, flash became popular and the only appreciable way to earn a living doing UI's was the HTML/CSS/Javascript jumbo. It's really hard to make any mark with a swing application these days. Java UIs, well, weren't going anywhere and sometimes even going backwards.
But, despite a year and a half long beta and a slight stuttered launch (I've heard a rumour that they accidently left hardware accelleration switched off by default in the 1.0 install) it appears to be gaining ground. You can even begin to hope again.
Obama & JavaFX ? I hope both of them succeed.
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