Lighthouse

[Stephen F Northover]

Thanks for getting back to us Mike and letting us know about your 
successful use of JavaFX.  The team does work hard and appreciates the 
kind words.

Steve

On 2014-09-12, 2:42 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> I've open sourced the JavaFX app I was working on for the past six months
> or so. Lighthouse is a Bitcoin crowdfunding application that uses some of
> the more novel features of the Bitcoin protocol to allow middleman free
> fund raising.
>
> There's a video of it in action here:
>
> http://blog.vinumeris.com/2014/09/12/lighthouse-alpha-now-open-source/
>
> and some screenshots here:
>
> https://github.com/vinumeris/lighthouse
>
> Additionally I've open sourced UpdateFX, which is an auto update engine
> that provides some interesting features:
>
> https://github.com/vinumeris/updatefx
>
> It's kind of rough still but if anyone is looking for an alternative to the
> existing update engines out there, take a look.
>
> I just wanted to say thanks to the OpenJFX team for your help and support
> this summer. I've very much enjoyed working both with you all and the
> framework you've created. I believe JavaFX is a surprisingly good fit for
> the Bitcoin community, because we suffer quite badly from the limitations
> and problems of web apps. HTML5 + decentralisation don't mix very well. A
> plain old desktop app works better, and JavaFX is a good way to build such
> things.
>
> thanks,
> -mike