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 [...]
Category Archives: Development
Programming editors
2007-02-01 – 22:20 CET
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 [...]
If something goes wrong
2007-01-26 – 20:15 CET
When you build a software system, something can go wrong. You have to plan for that. It can be a programming error, an operator error, or a situation you haven’t planned for. I’m pretty sure you have seen web pages giving you cryptic error messages, thus indicating that something went wrong. In many cases, [...]
All GWT components now Open Source
2006-12-12 – 22:30 CET
The Google Web Toolkit team has announced Google Web Toolkit Version 1.3 Release Candidate on the Google Web Toolkit Blog and the Official Google Blog. There have been no code changes since GWT Version 1.2, but all of the source code for GWT has been released under the Apache 2.0 license. This means that the [...]
JavaWorld: Dynamic Webpages with JSON
2006-11-19 – 12:00 CET
There’s an interesting article on how to overcome the same origin policy used by modern web browsers. It’s a security policy that prevents JavaScript from accessing a location different from the one it was loaded from. Same location normally means same protocol, subdomain, and domain. The same origin policy is sometimes called same site policy. [...]