Thunderhead Explorer

Following this post, Glenn G. found an "issue" when panning the map. I revisited the project and indeed there was a bug. Thanks Glenn. I updated the project and here is the result. In this project, I downloaded from geonames all cities with population over 15000 and plotted them on the map. The clustering of the cities (over 21,000) generated a cool heat map. Check it out and tell me what you think. And like usual, you can download the source code from here .

Found this great article "15 Ways Oracle Can Make Java Better (and Improve Its Stance with Developers)" - here is my "in the weed" take: Keep JavaONE - with heavy focus on developers. Embrace OSGi down in the core VM. Kill JavaFx - Work closer with Adobe on Flex / BlazeDS / LCDS . Improve Dynamic Language Support - groovy / scala / JRuby / Jython /etc... Talk to Google about ME (seriously?) / Android Kill NetBeans - Eclipse may be King, but IntelliJ is God ! Introduce new language primitives XML / Function / JSON. Improve language - set/get bean, native String ( switch myString {case "foo": ...}) as for casting. LINQ for Java - LCDS can help here. Talk to the Spring folks - there-is-only-one-framework-zuul :-) No "Effing" store ! So....what do you think ?