I’m finding I have a love-hate relationship with proxy objects, reflection and annotations. For our project I need to build a module which is capable of serializing our Java objects over JSON. The specifics of our protocol are a little different than most, so I rolled our own parser. No big deal. But then our [...]
Just saw a résumé cross my desk today, with “JavaScript” spelled “JAVA Scripts.” (Yes, from the context of the sentence, the guy was clearly referring to JavaScript.) Naturally I bounced it. I’m a terrible speller. My english skills are at best “okay.” But come-on: if you’re going to send off a résumé to impress a [...]
I spent the day playing with SmartGWT, and came to the conclusion that I’m not particularly a fan. Don’t get me wrong: the widgets that it produce are sexy as hell. And if the development work you’re doing fits into SmartGWT’s client/server model and you are willing to use SmartGWT’s server-side libraries to handle network [...]
I’ve built web sites using PHP and JSP, with ColdFusion, and now with GWT. One of the biggest problems I’ve run into with PHP and JSP and ColdFusion is that when you obtain information from a user, you commonly wind up flowing your logic through multiple pages. For example, with a shopping cart and checkout [...]