Road and Gravel Events 2025 (QC/Montréal)

This post follows the previous one I published last year with a (non exhaustive) list of cycling events (mostly Gravel) in the Montréal and Québec region. April 2025 Presta propulsée par Sportful (Sat, Apr 26) * Location: Hatley, QC * Type: Gravel * Distances: 34km/627m+, 50km/790m+, 60km/1000m+ * Price: C$50

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Winter 2023 Gravel Bike Build (Light Bicycle Journey)

In 2023 I was starting to eye (like many) into gravel riding. My road bike with rim brakes was starting to show limitations due to the limited tire clearance. I wanted to build a new do-it-all leisure bike (not a grocery-getter). This post showcases that build and part selection.

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Road and Gravel Events 2024 (QC/Montréal)

In this post, I will share some cycling events I am interested in for this upcoming 2024 season around the greater Montréal region and neighboring provinces/state.

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My Cooking hacks and Habits

Uncover practical cooking hacks and habits. From air fryer wonders to big-batch salads, meal subscriptions, weekly soups, and more, this article shares tips that make my cooking life easier and more effective.

Battle of Cycling Backpack Panniers

I like a good pannier bag on the bike and a backpack off the bike. Being a commuter and a city dweller, I need to carry things on my way to work or simply for running errands. When it comes to carrying the bag off the bike, I have a

WSL Setup On a New Windows 11 machine for Go Development

I used to run Pop!_OS on my desktop computer. It was great for working on side projects (Java, Go, PHP, etc. ). However, I also like to ride with Zwift in the winter months. Linux compatibility is not great. After fighting my computer to get a dual boot running (I

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JSON Editor with RichTextFX (part 2)

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. In the part 1 we discovered how to use the capabilities of the CodeArea component from the RichTextFX library in order to have a textarea suited for editing code and which can render rich text. In this post (part

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JSON Editor with RichTextFX (part 1)

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. Editing a JSON Schema is editing a JSON document. And editing a JSON document is akin to editing code (-ish). The TextArea control provided by JavaFX is a bit limited to support a good code editing experience. Hopefully, there

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Navigation using a ListView in JavaFX

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. The Schema Editor app I’ve been working on has two main panes in its UI: the menu on the left and the editor and the center. In the previous posts we were able to create a reactive menu

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Extract JavaFX Component (FXML)

This post is part the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. Until now, we been using a single FXML with a single controller and have put our components and logic in there. However as the application grows in complexity, the single controller and FXML file does not work so great in

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Editable ListView Cells in JavaFX

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. Following up on the previous article on ListView and Observable Collections, we want to use it in our JSON Schema Editor project with the ability to edit the name of the schema. Let’s explore how we can use

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Observable Collections and ListView in JavaFX

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. In a previous example, we used a TreeView to represent our list of schema. However, our Schema model does not follow a tree-like structure. A schema stands on its own and does not have any parents or children. Therefore,

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Introduction to Properties and Databinding in JavaFX

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. In the previous article, we made a Schema model class a simple Java Bean. We did not exactly follow all the rules for a Java bean but what mattered was to have private attributes with getters and setters. To

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Demo App: From FXML static content to dynamic content

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. In the previous post, we created a static and basic UI to kickstart our JSON Schema Manager project. One of the first things we want to do is to make it dynamic based on the data that we define.

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New Project: A JavaFX App to manage JSON Schema

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. Together, we’ve seen how to create a basic skeleton for a JavaFX application (using FXML). For the next days and articles, I will be using an example project to explore the different aspects of building a JavaFX application.

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Build a JavaFX native executable with FXML

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. So far we were able to build a native executable for our Java application using the Client Maven Plugin from Gluon. We built the UI using Java code only. What if we want to make use of more “dynamic”

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Paste an Image from Clipboard in JavaFX

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. In this guide, we will see how to paste an image into a view in JavaFX. We will be covering some UI basics, the use of keyboard shortcuts and how to read from the clipboard. Quick intro to JavaFX

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Native GUI app with JavaFX on Windows

This post is part of the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. This is a follow-up post on my previous “Native GUI app with JavaFX” guide. Examples and instructions in that guide are targeted for Linux. You could run the guide from the previous article if you are using the Windows

Simple JavaFX project won't run with IntelliJ

This post is part the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. If you try to run a simple JavaFX project like the one I used for my “Native GUI app with JavaFX” article in IntelliJ, you will run an error that looks like this: Exception in Application start method (...) Caused by:

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100 Days of JavaFX

I have to admit I kind of like playing with JavaFX even though I am not expert with it. In order to get better at it, I decided to do the 100 Days of Code challenge. I’ll try to use that learning opportunity to write blog posts about my

Native GUI app with JavaFX

This post is part the 100 Days of JavaFX Series. For this guide, I am building the application on Linux. Note that because we will end up compiling a native app, the binary will only work on a Linux system with the same architecture. By doing so, we lose the

Load a Resource from another Module in Java (With Maven)

Trying to put some resources on their own module on a Java 13 project, I ran into some issues where I could not load the resource. The idea was to reuse these resources (configs, styles, etc.) on multiple modules of my project. Given a simple Maven project: * parent * app * config

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Snapshot Testing with JavaFX

A few months ago, I was doing some iOS development and got to discover a way to test the rendering of UIs: Snapshot testing. The premise is that regular Unit or End-to-End tests don’t do a great job at testing how the app renders. Snapshot Testing is a technique

Reviving an old Jekyll Blog thanks to Docker

I don’t know if I have any regular reader. Yet, I know I am not a regular writer and only publish to this blog from time to time. I recently tried to publish an article about Java modules. I had difficulties rebuilding the blog using the jekyll build command.

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Java Modules with JavaFX, Slf4j, Logback and jlink

I recently tried to upgrade an old JavaFX application I had as a side-project to a more recent version of Java: Java 13 at the time of writing this. Most of my work with Java so far was on Java 8. I hardly did the switch to Java 9+ besides