Leon Atherton

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/leon/ Leon has over 15 years’ Java experience and leads BuildVu, also contributing to cloud services and internal tooling. Wearing many hats across technical and growth roles as a core member, he enjoys motorsport, strategy games, and software side projects.

   



50 Stories by Leon Atherton

How to convert from BufferedImage to JavaFX 2.2 Image

Until recently, if you wanted to load a BufferedImage in JavaFX you were out of luck – the only way to do it was...
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Optimising conversion from float to String in Java

Lets say you have a very specific use case – you want to convert a float to a String in Java, and if the...
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NetBeans “Cannot locate java installation in specified jdkhome”?

I recently came across this message when opening NetBeans after updating my Java version. Cannot locate Java installation in...
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How to draw SVG on HTML 5 Canvas and why you might want to

One of the limitations of shapes in HTML 5 canvas is that only one fill rule is supported, which can lead to shapes not...
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SVG shapes not working in Firefox but fine in Chrome, Safari, IE & Opera?

After taking a sneak peak at upcoming PDF to SVG functionality for our Online Converter, I was disappointed to see that shapes were not...
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Why canvas is not a self closing HTML5 tag

While debugging a page produced by our PDF to HTML5 Converter, I noticed that Firefox was showing some of the tags in the HTML...
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