Site Updates:

• We have added a entire section on the website listing our partners : check out - javafx.com/partners 

 What's New on javafx.com learn:

• A screencast by Scott Hommel - Creating an Image Slideshow
• and as you may have read in an earlier blog post, we have updated the Tech Test Train Training app

Here are some recent blogs and articles about JavaFX :

• Simon Morris author of JavaFX in Action  is writing  a multi-part blog called The Bluffers Guide to JavaFX in the Inside RIA blog.
• Read about Programming bitmapped graphics with JavaFX on java.net 
• A Scala console written in JavaFX
• A book review of Essential JavaFX
• A multi-part blog on Creating a Simple Game in JavaFX 
• Peter Pilgrim makes an introduction to the Java FX platform in - Enterprise Java FX for the Web Platform
• A recording 

  Max Katz's webinar titled "Build RIA with JavaFX, Flamingo and Seam

• Lightroom statistics - A JavaFX utlility for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom users

• Cheqlist a JavaFX desktop to-do application based on the Remember The Milk developer API

• Weekly links from Jonathan Giles

 Here are a couple of links to JavaFX apps that were left as comments in the previous round up post: 

• Aljoscha Rittner has written a small presentation app that shows the features of JavaFX. (click link to go to the open source project) 
• Alex Gnodtke has written a tutorial to take a simple JavaSE  game and convert it to JavaFX [also mentioned above]

 In News related to contests: 

• Jim Weaver has announced the JavaFXpert RIA Exemplar Challenge  : Deadline - Jan 2010

"Create an application in JavaFX that exemplifies the appearance and behavior of a next-generation enterprise RIA (rich internet application)"

• Thje next jfxstudio challenge - (theme : five) is now closed. You can visit the site to see some of the submissions, learn about the results or learn about the next contest theme.

You can also read about, and see the code for Jasper Potts submission to an earlier contest : the radial clock - at the FXperience blog 

Events:

The initial launch meeting of the Silicon Valley Java Users Group is scheduled for the 9th of December. Richard Bair, JavaFX lead developer will be presenting 

Releases: 

• A new version of WidgetFX, which includes some new functionality, including a new slideshow widget and support for 64-bit systems has been released