http://www.compare-review-information.com Review and comparison of information and opinions Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From March 15, 2010 on, the Canadian citizenship test is based on a new study guide: 'Discover Canada". Compared with the old study guide 'A Look at Canada', it is a more comprehensive document. If you have studied the old book but now you are required to take the new ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/new-canadian-citizenship-test/ Unlike the u17, the u18 update is not released for security, instead, it introduces many improvements on performance. Faster Jar File Creation If you application need to create a lot of jar files, you will see about 20 percent improvement. Hotspot VM Enhancement This includes some hardware-aware features, garbage collection improvements, ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/java-6u18-performance-improvement/ I am not sure if this is the first web site that uses JavaFX for production, the official web site of the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010 is using JavaFX for displaying the medal history of the Winter Olympics Games. In this winter, Vancouver is probably hot for Olympics, so is ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/javafx-used-olympics/ It has been a year since the official release of JavaFX. JavaFX had gone through 3 major releases and now the current version is 1.2.1. There are a few books out there on JavaFX. Today I would introduce the book “Essential JavaFX” by Gail Anderson and Paul Anderson. The book ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/review-book-essential-javafx/ Last year, the USCIS( United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) had changed the US citizenship test format. This citizenship test is part of the naturalization process for immigrants to get their American citizenship. The test usually contains two parts. The first part is a test of English skill, which includes ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/american-citizenship-practice-test/ Recently, some Canadian friends asked me how to apply for their citizenship in Canada. Here are the advices I gave them: For one to apply for the Canadian citizenship, there are some basic requirements: 1) be a landed immigrant(permanent resident ) in Canada; 2) be 18 years of age or ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/process-canadian-citizenship-application/ What does an earthquake have to do with JavaFX? It is not so obvious, eh? After I published my post about a JavaFX Online Wish Tree Application, I received some emails from readers reporting there were some problems to start the JavaFX client of the wish tree demo. I double ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/earthquake-hits-javafx/ Last week, in a poll many java developers said they did not want to use JavaFX in their applications. A reason is probably that the APIs of JavaFX is not yet stable. It is true that JavaFX language itself is still evolving. If we search on the internet and ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/javafx-api-for-java/ In my previous post Interoperability between JavaFX and Java, I discussed three possible approaches to invoke JavaFX features from the Java side. These approaches were: 1. The ScriptEngineManager class. It is based on JSR-223, the java scripting API, which allows a java program to call a script(such as JavaFX Script, javascript). ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/pure-java-code-to-call-javafx-class/ To fully take advantage of the power of JavaFX 1.2, Stephen Chin had just released the WidgetFX 1.2 API beta version. There is even a widget contest running until the end of July. Just before the JavaOne 2009, Jim Weaver asked me to write a widget for my JavaFX Pac-man ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/pac-man-widget-for-javafx-12/ On java.net, there was a post by kfarnham about my articles on writing Pac-man game in JavaFX. He wondered whether there would be a fifth article. The answer is positive. Yesterday, my last article of a series, "Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX Part 5", had been published on insiderRIA.com. ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/javafx-pac-man-game-5/ My latest article of a series, "Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX Part 4", was out on June 4. As we continue on bulding the game, the articles are getting more and more interesting now. In this fourth article, the interaction between Pac-Man character and the four ghosts was implemented. ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/writing-the-pac-man-game-part-4/ The latest JavaFX article of writing the Pac-Man game is published on May 28. It is the third out of a five-article series: "Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX - Part 3". In this article, the ghosts are introduced. The animation of the ghosts are almost the same as the ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/writing-javafx-pacman-game-3/ The 2nd article of the series, "Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX", is published today. The first article introduced a data model in Java and the JavaFX drawing logic of the maze. In the 2nd article, the animation part of the Pac-Man character is detailed. When you are reading, you ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/article-on-pac-man-game-javafx-2/ After the release of JavaFX 1.0, I wrote a Pac-Man game using the JavaFX API. Many people were quite interested in the game. They either enjoyed playing it or asked me for the details fo the JavaFX code. JavaFX expert Jim Weaver invited me to write some articles about ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/javafx-articles-writing-pac-man-game/ This is a JavaFX program for my kids, or say it is some fun for everybody. You can make a wish and put it somewhere on a Wish Tree. Hopefully, it will come true some time pretty soon. A star hanging on the tree denotes a wish. For Phase I, ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/build-a-wish-tree-in-javafx/ Recently, when I was writing some articles on JavaFX, I found it necessary to obtain a list of reserved words(keywords) of JavaFX so that I could use them in a syntax highlighter for blogs and web pages. After some search, I found them at http://www.compare-review-information.com/javafx-reserved-words/ After a few weeks' hard work, I finally came up with an Online Practice for the Canadian Citizenship Test. Many of my friends are Canadians and they find my online practice system very interesting and helpful. This online system has a database of more than 120 practice questions. What makes ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/online-canadian-citienship-test-practice/ Now that Oracle agrees to buy Sun for $7.4B. The acquisition of Sun has finally come to an end( or at least for a while). When we comparing the deal with IBM, it seems a better result for Sun, which is one of the most innovative companies in the Silicon ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/future-of-javafx/ Liu Xuan, a Chinese programmer, had written a Frozen Bubble game in JavaFX. He is kind to allow me to share his code here. The game was originally developed in Perl/SDL. A java port is available too. Liu's program implemented a simplified version of the Frozen Bubble game in JavaFX. Click ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/javafx-frozen-bubble/ [ 2009/06/28 Update: Please refer to my latest article for discussion on: Pure Java Code to Call JavaFX Class ] From the official JavaFX blog, an article discussed the possiblity of invoking methods of JavaFX classes from Java. JavaFX can call Java code without any problem, however, the reverse is ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/javafx-java-interoperability/ Today, I received JavaFX guru Jim Weaver's feedback on my demo game PACMAN. He even had a post about my game on his blog. I am so encouraged by him. Thanks a lot, Jim. Many people visited my blog and played the game. I am really happy about it. Thanks ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/jim-weavers-feedback/ News came today from the government that 533,000 jobs were cut in November. Forbe's statistics also indicated that 31,387 job losses in December so far were from top 500 public companies. The unemployment rate jumped to almost 7%. In total, more than 10 million people were unemployed as of November, ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/layoffs-number/ Today, the JavaFX 1.0 SDK is officially released. It is really exciting! The JavaFX platform opens a huge market for developers and UI designers to work together for a rich interface application(RIA). Because Java technology is already on more than 10M devices(PDA, computers, cellphones, etc), this new scripting language is ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/javafx-10-launched/ UPDATE: June 30, 2009 If you are interested in how to write the Pac-Man game in JavaFX, the source code of this game, please check out this article: How to Write the Pac-Man Game with JavaFX or Articles on Writing the JavaFX Pac-Man Game I spent some time to implement the classic game ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/my-javafx-demo/ Last night, the US government rushed to rescue Citigroup and agreed to put billions of dollars into the stricken bank and to plow a whopping $20 billion into it. Again, Citigroup is "too big" to fail, just like that AIG is "too big" to fail, BoA and lots of other ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/cititgroup-bailout/ During the financial crisis, what is the safest investment today? The answer is probably the Treasury bill(T-bill). This investment instrument is backed by the government. As long as the government remains alive, your T-bill will be paid back with a interest. If the country goes bankrupted, like Iceland, the T-bill will ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/safest-investment/ People visit a web site mostly for useful information, especially frequently updated content. The home page of your site is the most crucial one which you should pay more attention to. When visitors come to your web site, you have about 10-20 seconds to convince them that your site is ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/effective-content-marketing/ We know that the U.S. stock markets won't come back any time sooner. So where can we put our money to work? I think China is a candidate that we can put safe money into. China's growth rate will drop to around 8-9% in 2009, but it is still much ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/best-time-to-invest-in-where/ Last week, I joined a seminar of internet marketing. It was a good one and I learnt quite a few techniques to promote an online business. Sum up as below: 1) Use Distinguished Product Description When we are putting up our product pages, we can use key attributes such as product ID, ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/online-marketing-techniques/ A friend of mine is putting a property for sale. Last year, he found his house was worth $820,000. This year, the house was reassessed for only $740,000. He checked the listings around the area the price range from $600,000 to $860,000. So he decided to sell his house ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/house-selling/ Ok, Barack Obama won the election, stock markets cheered and rebounded. Then what? Though Mr. Obama won the election, doesn't mean this credit crisis ends, that housing prices will rebound quickly, or that the stock market will hit new heights soon. On the contrary, it is going to get worse and ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/can-obama-save-my-pension-funds/ Almost every internet user is a member of some sort of an online community. An online community is usually a public place where people's internet identity to "gather" virtually and "interact" with each other. Some examples of an online community are bulletin boards, newsletters and photo sharing web sites. So why ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/building-online-community/ After a multi-year process, the USCIS has finally finished a redesign of the citizenship test, or the naturalization test. This test is usually taken by people who apply for the U.S. Citizenship. The redesigned test put more focus on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the fundamental understandings of ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/new-citizenship-test/ One common misunderstanding of banner ads are to reach the greatest number of audience. In fact, the right focus should be reaching as many as possible targeted people, who are related to your web site's content. So having your targeted banner ads is the first rule. Since most banner ads ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/internet-marketing-banner-ad/ Marketing strategies are almost the same for small and big business. You need to consider these aspects: 1) your product name, 2) your target readers 3) convert visitors to buyers 4) build repeat customers A successful internet marketing should be good for managing all above elements. On-line marketing contains tasks such as communicating with ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/advantages-of-internet-marketing/ What is online marketing? How to have successful online marketing? If you own a business, and want to perform marketing online, you need to be a creative thinker and think outside of the box. The Internet is the ideal place for small businesses(such as home business) to roll out their marketing ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/online-marketing-101/ Starting from mid September, panic selling has set in again ... Many of my friends are rushing to sell stocks or mutual funds. We can see scared investors are cashing out left and right. Hedge funds hit with redemptions started their massive selling. Margin calls are hitting large and ... http://www.compare-review-information.com/panic-selling/