The previous version GWT 1.4.60 came out on August 27th, 2007. A couple of days later I had upgraded all my applications, the expression calculator demo too. None of the applications suffered from a strange bug except the demo. It appeared only when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was used. A message box was displayed that told [...]
Even the smallest development team (one developer) needs a source code repository with versioning like Subversion to track all the changes made to the source code over time, and to reproduce the revisions software releases were based on. The ability to create branches is necessary to maintain software releases in the field, while continuing with [...]
I had some time today, so I built a little AJAX application for this blog. It’s an expression calculator. The world really doesn’t need another one, but it was the easiest thing that includes ANTLR for building a lexer/parser/AST and the Google Web Toolkit for building the client. Why? Because it’s fun …
It wasn’t planned that way, but it turned out that I had to write a WordPress plugin myself to solve a problem. I want to have a Google Web Toolkit application run inside my blog. No big deal, but I couldn’t accomplish one tiny detail. GWT applications need a meta tag with the name gwt:module [...]
Everybody who is programming is using one or more of them. My favorite programming editor is Epsilon from Lugaru Software Ltd., and that since 1996. It’s around since 1984. Although my first version was for DOS, Windows, and OS/2, I used it primarily under DOS for writing C programs. I started in 1978 with a [...]