http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:49:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en GWT does not provide as near a complete set of widgets with GWT as, say, YUI. It does provide a way to integrate existing javascript widgets, as the gwt-ext and gwt-widget projects do. However, this approach is lacking compared to native GWT widget sets because They require external javascript ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000479 Here's an interesting article about building websites with GWT.  By 'normal' this author is talking about integrating GWT components into existing HTML pages, or making widgets available to non technical users.  This is in contrast to what seems like the sweet spot of GWT--building rich web applications.  (I've talked about ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000478 I am currently working on a project that uses a PHP CMS for the bulk of the site. However, it pulls some content from a page generated by JSTL on a tomcat. I was using the fmt tag to do some pretty printing of numbers, and it looked ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000477 I am using JSTL for a project. For such a standard, it's a bit wierd to get started with. Sun provides a spec, but as far as I can see, you have to download the entire J2EE stack to get the jarfile. There's not a lot of ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000476 I just got back from Google I/O.  This two day conference was the successor to Google Developer Day. There were a wide variety of topics covered.  I hope to get my notes written up, but for now, I just wanted to capture some advice on conference-going, mostly for my future ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000475 I'm off to San Francisco for Google I/O, a two day conference on focused on web application development, with a heavy focus on Google's APIs and tools. I'm excited for sessions ranging from "Faster-Than-Possible Code: Deferred Binding with GWT" to "Underneath the Covers at Google: Current Systems and Future ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000474 One of my clients has a fairly complicated web application. In any application of this nature, there are a lot of usernames and passwords--for DNS management, databases, accounts for integrated services, etc. Where can you store all these? Well, you could have a master excel spreadsheet that gets version ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000473 I ran into a really bizarre issue today.  A client's website had paragraph tags separating content, wrapped inside a number of divs.  One of the divs had the classname of 'content'.  In IE7, and not in FF2 or IE6, the first line of the paragraph was indented.  Modifying, even deleting, ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000472 Here's a great article about how to overlay one image on top of another, dealing with all kinds of browser quirks. Well, not all kinds, mostly IE 5.5 and IE 6. Not an extremely common situation, but the article is well written and when you gotta do it, ... http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000471 Courtesy of Onsight Media, here's a video of the Boulder Facebook Developer Garage presentations. http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000470