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Enum based ComboBoxes in GXT
Working with GXT is interesting. You combine utter frustration and time wasting with incredible breakthroughs that make you say ‘I could have never done that so easily in another framework.’ In a way all frameworks are like this I suppose. My most recent problem/breakthrough was around enums. The particular app in question uses GXT in the [...]
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Google Wave has been out for almost a year now and its strengths and weaknesses have been analyzed by every blogger/pundit/opinion maker on the planet at this point. That said, since this is the Internet, I am going to put my $.02 in. So without further ado here is my Wave experience.
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- Building GWT apps using GXT. How I love component based development with real callbacks! #
- You know you've been working on the same code for too long when you comment snarkily to yourself on tickets YOU FILED.... #
- Reading: Trespassers at the Top of the World, Good To Great, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, lots of documentation #
- XML-RPC may be soooo 2002 but it undeniably is awesome / Doing neat things with Wicket / Playing with my kids #
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Various ramblings and thoughts, mostly unmaintained.
“If you look at software today, through the lens of the history of engineering, it’s certainly engineering of a sort–but it’s the kind of engineering that people without the concept of the arch did. Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.” – Alan Kay
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Red Queen
There is real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality. – Richard Dawkins
The problem with rules is that we, as humans, are wired to circumvent them. So you build a culture instead since we, as humans, are wired to engage in a culture. – Me
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. – Timothy Leary
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