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Joshua Marinacci
Researcher, Nokia

Website | @joshmarinacci

Joshua Marinacci is a Java.net blogger and co-author of ‘Swing Hacks’ for O’Reilly. He is currently a staff engineer for Sun Microsystems working on designer tools for JavaFX. He previously worked on NetBeans and core Java SE.

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Developers vs Designers: Expanding the Java Platform Beyond Programmers

Java
Location: F150

Joshua Marinacci (Nokia)

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In the past the Java platform has been unfriendly to designers, just as the development of user-focused software is shifting greatly in favor of designers. This session covers how the development of software has changed over the past 20 years and the many developments in the Java ecosystem that promise to open the platform to non-programmers. Read more.