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Frank Delporte

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Covers:  Java, Raspberry Pi, JavaFX, Electronics, STEM, JavaOnRaspberryPi
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JavaOnRaspberryPi - Java Champion - Author of 'Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi' - Senior Technical Writer at Azul - Team member Pi4J - Co-Organizer BeJUG - Lead coach CoderDojo Belgium Ieper

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Introducing Sheetmusic4J, a Java(FX) Library to Render and Interact with Sheet Music

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By Frank Delporte
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I'm building MelodyMatrix with my son, an application to look at and play along with music. The app already shows a song in different views: falling blocks, chords, guitar views, and many more. Now we want a Learn section, a view that helps someone practice piano by following the actual sheet music while it plays. A static PDF of the sheet doesn't work for that. Great PDF viewer components exist for JavaFX, but a PDF has no connection to what's playing.
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My Book 'Java Programming for Raspberry Pi' is Now Available as Softcover and Hardcover on Amazon

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By Frank Delporte
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"Java Programming for Raspberry Pi: A Hands-On Guide to Electronics and IoT Projects" is now available as a softcover and hardcover paper book through Amazon, on top of the Kindle ebook and the pay-as-you-wish version on Leanpub. If you prefer holding a physical book while you're wiring up LEDs and sensors on your Raspberry Pi, that's now possible again. How it got there The first version of my book, got published as paper book by Elektor in 2020.
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Debugging BentoFX in MelodyMatrix with Matt Coley, Scenic View, and an Honest Look at AI-Generated Code

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By Frank Delporte
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There are bugs you can solve by yourself, and bugs where you just need to sit down with someone who knows the internals. This video is in the second category. MelodyMatrix uses BentoFX for its dockable panel layout. Branches, leaves, tabs on the side, content panels that open and close. It works well until something fights the layout. But I had some visual problems I could not explain, some code that felt more complicated than it should be, and no good explanation for why.
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