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Areas of Expertise:

  • iPhone
  • Mac OS X
  • QuickTime
  • Cocoa
  • Core Audio
  • Java
  • Final Cut
  • Soundtrack
  • podcast production
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing

Biography

Chris Adamson is an independent writer, editor, and developer, living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Now focusing on iPhone and Mac development, he is the co-author of iPhone SDK Development. He is also the author of QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook and co-author of Swing Hacks. He was formerly the editor of java.net, and of ONJava.com. He consults and publishes through his corporate identity, Subsequently and Furthermore, Inc., with a focus on user-facing and digital media development for Mac and iPhone. He blogs on digital media software development at [Time code];. In a previous career, he was a Writer / Associate Producer at CNN Headline News, and over the years, he has managed to own eleven and a half Macs.

Books

iPhone SDK Development iPhone SDK Development (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Bill Dudney , Chris Adamson
October 2009
Print: $38.95

Swing Hacks Swing Hacks
by Joshua Marinacci , Chris Adamson
June 2005
Print: $29.95
Ebook: $23.99

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QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook
by Chris Adamson
January 2005
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Articles

Blog

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Famous Last Words

March 31 2009

A very big round of thanks... also: Java Today: JSR 292 support in javac, customizing the applet security warning, and JavaCard 3 Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 75: Daniel Green on kids and computers Weblogs: SwingX 0.9.6, OpenDS code commits visualized, and QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn Forum Posts: Abusing sockets, disabling ?WSDL, and… read more

This Is How I Disappear

March 30 2009

Editorial changes this week... also: Java Today: JSR 317 (JPA 2.0) proposed final draft, Project Coin week 4, and JTHarness 4.2 milestone 1 Weblogs: SwingX pushes towards 1.0, JSF to Struts to SEAM to Spring, and calling a Metro web service from Clojure Spotlight: SIPCommunicator in Google Summer of Code 2009 Forum Posts: Java… read more

Disenchanted

March 27 2009

Just how open is Java? Also: Java Today: Stephen Colebourne questions Java standard openness, JavaFX 1.1.1 released, and talking cloud computing with a Java Champion Weblogs: OpenSSO jobs, Swing jobs and Limewire, and seeking help with Swing Application Framework Forum Posts: Updating JAXB for GlassFish, how not to paint in Swing, Java ME… read more

The Sharpest Lives

March 26 2009

How the OpenJDK team plans to get to JDK 7... also: Java Today: Feature list and build schedule for JDK 7, JCP chair interviewed, and which default LAF for Java 7? Weblogs: Talking real-time Java in the UK, forking Beans Binding, and Footprint adopts Maven 2 Forum Posts: Networking on Blu-Ray hardware, diagnosing… read more

House of Wolves

March 25 2009

GlassFish makes a splash at EclipseCon... also: Java Today: GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse, Project Coin proposals nearly finalized, and SIPCommunicator in Google Summer of Code Weblogs: Monitoring GlassFish with VisualVM, OpenDS news tidbits, and clean JavaFX code Weblogs: Zebra-striped JTables, remembering passwords for the JXLoginPane, and USB (yes, again) read more

My Way Home Is Through You

March 24 2009

Getting your favorite dynamic language on the JVM... also: Java Today: Planetarium podcast on dynamic languages, QCon video on dynamic languages, and NetBeans wins a Jolt, releases and update, and lines up testers (and it's only Tuesday) Weblogs: WebLogic to GlassFish migration, Metro/Jersey/GlassFish/OpenESB/OpenSSO presentation, and JAXB + Maven + DTD + XSD… read more

To The End

March 23 2009

Final week and a half for Project Coin submissions... also: Spotlight: Project Coin accepting proposals through March 30. Java Today: Project Coin week 3 summary, servlets on JavaCard, and OpenESB interview Weblogs: JavaFX challenges, Ubuntu and java.net Maven repository, and Ant/Maven truce Forum posts: Hazards of idle speculation, security tubes and WS-Policy, and getting… read more

You Had Time

March 20 2009

How are you spending the downturn? Also: java.net Poll: Where do you write the most code? Java Today: JSR 282 (Real-Time Java 1.1) early draft review, Masood Mortazavi interview part 2, and JavaTools Community Newsletter issue 193 Weblogs: Grails on GlassFish v3 embedded, the .NET Fedlet From OpenSSO, and EJB almanac. Forum Posts: Ignoring… read more

Untouchable Face

March 19 2009

Slick and special JavaFX apps contend for prizes... also: Java Today: JavaFX Coding Challenge, session video from CommunityOne East, and Best Practices for JavaFX Mobile Applications Weblogs: Sidebar in FX, Project Coin and syntactic sugar, and MySQL for developers Forum Posts: AS_JAVA variable, Eclipse plugin for GlassFish, turning off the next-gen Java plug-in,… read more

Every Angle

March 18 2009

And this is why you test and fix stuff... also: Forum Posts: Chinese font sizes in LWUIT, illegal XML characters in JAXB, federated identities for web services, and GRIN scene graph for BD-J Java Today: JavaFX light effects, JDK build process, and OpenSSO webinar Thursday Weblogs: Getting started with Atmosphere, installing Hudson as… read more

32 Flavors

March 17 2009

More tasty little language changes... also: Java Today: Project Coin week 2, NetBeans 6.5.1, and more ActionScript for Java developers. Weblogs: GlassFish 0.9.3 gem, turning Hudson cluster into Hadoop cluster, and OpenDS for replication and failover recovery. Forum Posts: Compiling twice with Maven JAXB plugin, dynamic certificate realms, and proposing a "properties" resource… read more

Outta Me, Onto You

March 16 2009

What Java inherited, and what it bequeaths... also: Java Today: C++ and Java legacies, Project Coin session from Java Posse Roundup, and JavaOne 2009 sessions posted Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 74: BlueJ and Greenfoot Weblogs: Web service documentation and client class generation, GlassFish workshop in Milwaukee, and JAX-RS 1.1 draft available Spotlight: ROME… read more

Bring on the Dancing Horses

March 13 2009

Looking ahead to JavaOne 2009. Also: Java Today: JSR 318 (EJB 3.1) proposed final draft, JDK 7 language model changes, and RESTful webservice and JavaFX Weblogs: GlassFish bootcamp, Hudson SVNCancelException, and blueMarine customer acceptance testing Forum Posts: Swing table-packer, JSR 275 (units API), switch between LCDUI and LWUIT, and managing bitmap fonts read more

Never Stop

March 12 2009

Feeds aplenty from ROME... also: Java Today: ROME 1.0, Flying Saucer 8 RC1, and OpenJDK's IcedTea project Weblogs: Grails 1.1 and Maven, shadows in Synth, and JAX-WS 2.2 and Metro 2.0 nightly builds Forum Posts: Petition to get JSR'ed technology on devices, scripting for JAI, and ICEFaces on GlassFish webinar read more

Do It Clean

March 11 2009

Using CSS for JavaFX... also: Java Today: JCP ME EC special election results, JavaFX Sudoku styled with CSS, and JavaTools Community Newsletter #192 Weblogs: java.net Maven2 repository changes, JRuby on Rails on GlassFish success story, and Jazoon Rookie deadline Forum Posts: SwingX code-breaking changes begin, LWUIT demo on jailbreak iPhone, and setting up… read more

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Multimedia

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Podcast The Community of Web 2.0
Publish Date: Nov. 2, 2005

In this 48-minute audio program from the Web 2.0 conference, Tim O'Reilly speaks with Sun Microsystems COO Jonathan Schwartz and Mozilla Foundation president Mitchell Baker about developer communities, distribution, architectures and expandability, and the value of open source.

Chris Adamson

"...if you do program in Java and you are interested in developing QuickTime applications, then QuickTime for Java(TM): A Developer's Notebook by Chris Adamson (O'Reilly, 2005) should be on your bookshelf. Better yet, it should be propped open on your desk as you work your way though it."
--Tim Monroe, MacTech