iBeacons in Retail

A short story about first iBeacons deployment in polish Neon Museum and ideas how we can enhance retail with this technology.

Sebastian Suchanowski

5 minute read

iBeacons is that kind of technology that you have probably heard a lot but haven’t seen it in the real world at all. But there are many applications out there and in most cases, the majority of benefits are presented to people at the other end.

Vertical, stateful JFXTabPane with icons in JavaFX

In this post, I will show you how to build a custom vertical tab bar with icons using JFXTabPane. Our main goal over here is to create a side menu with 1 tab being single state logout button. Let's take a look at the final result:

Sebastian Suchanowski

6 minute read

A while ago I’ve started working on a product that needed a multiplatform desktop app. I choose JavaFX as due to my research it will work the best with the other tools and frameworks that are necessary for this project.

Introducing Apple's Swift for iOS

Swift was introduced on WWDC by Apple as a new programming language for iOS and OS X. So we all are soon to be Swift Programmers.

Sebastian Suchanowski

3 minute read

Swift was introduced on WWDC by Apple as a new programming language for iOS and OS X. Apple claims that it’s much faster than Objective-C and has better syntax but let’s get deeper into it and judge for ourselves. Official apple note: > Swift is an innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Writing code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and apps run lightning-fast. Swift is ready for your next iOS and OS X project — or for addition…

Showing map preview with MKMapSnapshotter

Working with MapKit can be tricky but if you only need a preview of the map then MKMapSnapshotter comes with a helping hand.

Sebastian Suchanowski

4 minute read

Working with MapKit can be tricky but if you just need a preview of the map then MKMapSnapshotter comes with a helping hand.