Mark Stephens has been working with Java and PDF since 1999 and has diversified into HTML5, SVG and JavaFX.
He also enjoys speaking at conferences and has been a Speaker at user groups, Business of Software, Seybold and JavaOne conferences. He has a very dry sense of humor and an MA in Medieval History for which he has not yet found a practical use.
Mark Stephens has been working with Java and PDF since 1999 and has diversified into HTML5, SVG and JavaFX.
He also enjoys speaking at conferences and has been a Speaker at user groups, Business of Software, Seybold and JavaOne conferences. He has a very dry sense of humor and an MA in Medieval History for which he has not yet found a practical use.
Recently, the RaspberryPi foundation surprised most of us with a new version of the RaspberryPi (creatively named the RaspberryPi 2). So I ordered one from a UK distrbutor (Cjemicros) to see what the new machine was like. The new machine is pretty much the same price and physical size as the old model (so you can…
Recently, I have been working on producing a JavaFX implementation of the Swing PDF Viewer in our JPedal PDF library. This has involved a large amount of refactoring to separate out common, shared code and then implementing JavaFX specific functions or optimisations. One of the features which we make extensive use of in our PDF viewer…
I was lucky enough to be invited to the annual talk and dinner, hosted by Greenwich University on wednesday night. The event began with drinks and a chance to meet other attendees (a wide range of people from Industry and Academia) before the annual talk. This year, the current BCS president Liz Bacon , who is also…
At IDRsolutions we are big fans of Fog Creek’s FogBugz issue tracking software. We find it has just the right balance of simplicity and features for us – allowing us to focus on the job of developing our own software and supporting our users. One of my favourite features in FogBugz is that a case always belongs…
In 2014, we spent a lot of time creating a JavaFX PDF Viewer to complement our existing Swing PDF Viewer (there is a cutdown open source version and the full commercial version is part of the JPedal library). This was a very interesting comparison for us so I thought that the start of 2015 would…
This blog is written by the team at IDRsolutions about all things related to PDF and Java. It includes tutorials on the PDF format, interesting links, things we discover, moans about Java or PDF and things we find out in the course of developing and maintaining a PDF library written in Java.
