Just a quick note that Part One of the Using Properties and Bindings in JavaFX 2 article that I wrote for Java Magazine is now available. It is written in tutorial-style, and contains a download that has exercise/solution code. Here's a video that introduces the article.

CSS animations are right up there with sliced bread. CSS animations are efficient because they can be hardware accelerated, they require no JavaScript overhead, and they are composed of very CSS little code. Quite often we add CSS transforms to elements via CSS during :hover, and we also create keyframe-based animations by adding a className, but did you know you can animate elements using media queries as the trigger? Let's have a look!

For a while now I’ve been wanting to set aside some time to do some sort of web development parody. I’ve done this sort of thing before and it’s fun to see people’s reactions.