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Microsoft creates GWT clone

Microsoft creates GWT cloneThe "clone" strategy..~ "If Volta had been released two years ago.. ..Microsoft is playing catch-up with Google and Adobe" ~They are, and it'll most likely be an uphill battle, too as those two giants focus on newer and progressively more powerful versions.Bill Burkehttp://wirelessspeech.blogspot.comMS: Start late, catch-up, over...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., GWT, Playing Catch-Up

Discussion threads 2007-12-08

Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT

Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTWow!Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. What a great description and comparison of Volta to GWT!I am so excited about Volta and it's possibilities!-Brandonhttp://dynamics-ax.blogspot.comRE: Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTNice idea, but slow as hell. Try the demos at...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Scripting languages, Volta, Microsoft Corp., GWT, Google Inc., GWT JSIO

Discussion threads 2007-12-07

Microsoft creates GWT clone

While the GWT conference was going on in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its own take on the concept: Volta. GWT compiles Java source code into Javascript, and now Volta does the same thing for C# and other .NET languages. "JavaScript is just an assembly language," says Live Labs product manager...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Tier, CLR, GWT, Volta, Upshot, Silverlight 1.1, .Net, C#, Web Browsers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Google opens up to outside contributors

Google opens up to outside contributorsUggggh!Apart from the insanity of using a browser as a development platform and the fact that a lot of these Java fanboys and script kiddies didn't really experience any decent development environments (such as MS's Visual series) - so anything looks good, my main question...

Tags: AJAX, Development tools, GWT, GWT Widget, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

Google Web Toolkit goes 1000open source

Google Web Toolkit goes 1000open sourceAnother GWT powered Goog apEd said:While they're not intending to rewrite GMail any time soon, GWT developers have been dropping hints about new public-facing Google applications in the works now that will be leveraging the toolkit.Looks like GWT is starting to take hold internally at...

Tags: E-mail providers, GWT, Google Web Toolkit, Google Web, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

Google needs to eat their own dog food

Google needs to eat their own dog foodSounds horridBut changing the programming language won't help.Oh how good it would be to have an office package that had actually been designed from the ground up to be integrated and not as a set of discrete applications patched together in a hurry...

Tags: OpenOffice, Tools & Techniques, Food & Beverage, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., GWT, software, food

Discussion threads 2006-10-11

Google Web Toolkit: new version, new book

On Friday, Google released version 1.1.10 of GWT, fixing a slew of bugs in their free Java/Ajax framework. A list of bug fixes can be found here. According to tech lead Bruce Johnson, The great discussions [on the GWT developer forum] motivated us to do an update as fast as...

Tags: GWT

Blog posts 2006-08-27

GWT - The future of web programming

GWT - The future of web programmingUmm... no.If you think that what they have there is "the future of programming" then you are sadly mistaken. That is not the future of much at all. The last thing any programmer wants is for some tool to be doing translation from one...

Tags: Programming languages, .NET, Middleware, CWT, Java, GWT, AJAX, Web, AJAX Application

Discussion threads 2006-05-17

GWT - The future of web programming

Wow. This amazing toolkit created by Google could revolutionize web development as some people in the GWT developer forum seem to already realize. This product lets programmers create and debug applications in Java -- then compile them into an AJAX application consisting of HTML and Javascript no Java....

Tags: GWT

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Google opens up to outside contributors

A few weeks ago, Google opened up development of their Google Web Toolkit and released the whole system under the Apache license. Now theyve taken the next logical step, by accepting their first outside contributor to the project: Sandy McArthur. I caught up with Sandy after the announcement to ask...

Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, Licenses, NetBeans, AJAX, Scripting, Community, Programming, Google, GWT, Sandy McArthur

Blog posts 2000-01-18

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Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS?

Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS?Partially agree, but......The argument is that ALL apps should be web interface with all of the work being done on remote servers. Forget wireless connectivity issues in the USA, the reality is that having apps on your mobile device will...

Tags: Operating systems, Cellular phones, operating system, Nokia Corp., Google Inc., mobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

News to know: Windows 7; Firefox 3.0; Yahoo; SOA; Nokia

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 2 available from FTP servers ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Camcorder, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

GWT fireside chat

I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud

On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-05-29

52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O

On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Sudoku ported to Android

I've written a free Android version of Sudoku. It's very basic, but after I clean it up I hope it will serve as a good example to beginning Android programmers. Here's a screen shot: The source code and binaries can currently be found...

Tags: Touch Screen, Theme, Eclipse, Documentation, Emulator, Android, Android Life Cycle, Android SDK, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Microsoft Volta - a cool new RIA technology

I heard about Volta last week and to be honest, I had no idea what it was. "Tier-splitting" sounds interesting but I wasn't sure how it would be used in the real world. The blogosphere soundbyte of "Microsoft's GWT" got me more confused. Ed has a very good writeup with...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Volta, Ed, AJAX, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-12-11

News to know: LinkedIn revamp; Can enterprise software be sexy?; Apple; R.I.P. Marc Orchant

Notable headlines: Rest in Peace Marc Orchant.  Techmeme. I'd like to share with you the two life lessons Marc Orchant taught me. We will all miss Marc. LinkedIn revamps interface, opens API. On Sunday a big debate of enterprise software broke...

Tags: LinkedIn, Apple Inc., Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT

Is Microsoft's "cloud programming" toolset Volta -- which Microsoft released in early preview form this week -- a "me-too" response to Google's Google Web Toolkit GWT? I've seen that argument from fellow ZDNet blogger Ed Burnette and others around the Web. I asked Microsoft Volta Architect...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Google Web Toolkit, Volta, Execution Environment, Scripting Languages, C#, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Programming Languages, Software Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-07

News to know: Vista SP1; XP on OLPC; Facebook's lessons

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Want to test Vista SP1? Wait til next week. Microsoft delivers test build of cloud-programming toolset. Simple Sharing Extensions get a new lease on life. IE team shares ... a version number...Microsoft moves a step closer toward getting Windows...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows XP, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, One Laptop Per Child Project, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-06