It's the culmination of an international competition that last year included a total of more than 40,000 participants and 1,680 teams from 11 countries. This year's championship is being held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta (April 16-18, 2009), with thousands of spectators in attendance. FIRST was founded by Dean Kamen, best known as the inventor of the Segway. And the open source Sun SPOT platform and Squawk VM play a big role in it.
With the release of version 1.2 of JavaFX technology, developers have a new style of class inheritance: a mixin. A mixin is a type of class that can be inherited by a subclass, but it is not meant for instantiation. In this manner, mixins are similar to interfaces in the Java programming language. However, the difference is that mixins may actually define method bodies and class variables in addition to constants and method signatures.
Learn about the "mixin class," a new feature in JavaFX 1.2 that offers programmers a simplified form of multiple inheritance.
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There’s a huge amount of new technology pouring out into the world these days – lots of it focussed around the web and consumers and the key term that keeps being talked about it ubiquity. Flash brought video to the web because it was ubiquitous, HTML5 will kill flash once it’s ubiquitous, mobile web access is becoming ubiquitous etc. The most striking thing in all of this is just how quickly these new technologies are actually finding their way into real world usage.
SlashDot: Firefox Mobile Reaches 1.0.
Clinet is a simple IRC client for Android phones.