I’m part of a team that builds a data warehouse for our client, an international recognized car and motorcycle manufacturer. Right now, the data comes from various sources, most of it is provided in CSV files. As a first step, these files are loaded into a staging area. It has been decided to accomplish this [...]
Author Archives: Thomas Weitzel
Wicket first contact
2008-01-06 – 20:45 CET
While working on an AJAX web application a couple of weeks ago, a co-worker asked me what I know about Wicket. Not much at that time. I knew it was some kind of component based web framework, but only in the sense like everybody knows that Porsche is a German car brand.
During the recent holidays [...]
Why I upgraded to GWT 1.4.61
2007-11-08 – 21:05 CET
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 [...]
Trac for a team of one
2007-09-10 – 22:50 CEST
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 [...]
A small GWT application
2007-02-10 – 16:35 CET
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 …