Archive for the ‘GWT’ Category
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
This morning's general session was the Microsoft keynote.
Microsoft and Sun made a pretty good attempt at trying to convince the crowd the the two companies are friendly competitors, and the interoperability is the highest goal for both. It looks like they may indeed be making inroads in the data center ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
I was, um....Googling myself....and found an old post I made to comp.lang.java.programmer in 1999, answering someone's question about how to draw rotated text in Swing.
I looked around, and ten years later, there still doesn't seem to be much easily-found information on this. So, here it is again....
I just worked this ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
In Java, annotations are currently all the rage.
Personally, I think that not all annotations are created equal. Some are quite useful, while others make no sense to me at all. It seems that annotations are a golden hammer, and everything is a nail lately.
Annotations such as those for JUnit make ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Once every few years or so, I find myself writing software for a non-profit organization.
No, never the same one twice :-)
I first did this almost 20 years ago, for the Philadelphia Folk Festival, in Clipper v. 5.0, a compiled dBase - derivative, under MSDOS. The great thing about Clipper ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
I've been evaluating GWT for building rich front-ends for web apps.
Like most folks, I quickly found that while GWT is a very good implementation of a spectacular idea (write your whole application in one language - Java, of course), the set of widgets provided out of the box leaves a ...
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JavaOne 2009 – Thur. 6/4
