GoogleIO

From the Keynote speech yesterday lots of interesting things appear to be coming for GWT.  This is just a brief post to keep you updated but version 2.1 of GWT includes new data widgets and close integration with the SpringRoo framework.  This code allows you to quickly develop boiler place admin and data entities allowing you to quickly developer add/edit/update/view/query data and screens.  Very exciting from a GWT perspective.

Speedtracer demos were very informative allowing an finely grained drill down of the performance aspects of your GWT application.  They even showed the ability to trace performance bumps on the server side and to allow you to add custom messages into the speed tracer program.  From a developer perspective this is amazing.  You can watch your application perform and know instantly where the tuning needs to operate on.

Where have I been?

Sorry for the delay in writing.  GWT Sushi is still here.  A family emergency meant me being offline for a moment, but two weeks later I am back in sunny Seattle and raring to go.   Next month I am off to Google IO, before which I have to move apartments, and find a new job.  It should be an interesting, if hectic, few months.  So if anyone knows of any opportunities in GWT, Android, Java for a thirteen year experience Microsoft developer (yes I am trying to move to a new field), then please drop me a line.

Panels Tutorials Coming Soon!

Typically Thursday’s and  Friday’s are the days I use to work on examples for the blog.  In preparation for this weeks work I came across an excellent series of examples outlining the panels functionality of GWT.

Panels in GWT are used to layout content and can contain one or more widgets.  There are many of them that provide very different functionality.  This tutorial http://examples.roughian.com/index.htm#Panels~Summary goes through each of the panels and gives an overview of each of them.

The guide is due for an update and I believe I am the person for the job.  With GWT 2.0 new declarative layout these examples can be converted to this new format.  This saves the user from having to define all objects in code, but rather define them in an xml file.  It will be an interesting exercise for two reasons.  One – I will learnt about all the panels, which is going to be a benefit for my own development.  Two – A large new Sample – Numero Eight – will show off these and why they are used.

I love coffee

In the interests of keeping this hard working – aren’t we all – developer at work I am adding a “Buy me a coffee” button.  Feel free to donate, or don’t feel free.  Either way I enjoy blogging about GWT, the extra caffeine just might increase my productivity to add more demos.  Then again I might end up on a caffeine high mumbling energetically in the gutter somewhere.

New Demos Page

Demos are great they illustrate the power of a product and provide a great insight into the functionality a set of technologies can provide.  Therefore today I have added the demos page which spotlights interesting demos and third party libraries which will help make your GWT application cooler than a pair of Reebok Pump sneakers.

Demos

Yet Another Great Demo Website (YAGDW)

I get demos and here is another great demo compilation: http://ow.ly/1hLwV

Your G.W.T. Community Needs You

At this blog we are collecting Hello World type samples that show off individual pieces of GWT 2.0+ functionality.  With version 2.0 Google has added the UIBinder model which separates the visual layer from the code.  This allows for better management of your code as well as a more visual representation of the visual widgets you are developing. 

In order to provide more examples to the community we are adding samples and articles to this blog and call on all our fellow developers to point us into the direction of good articles and downloadable sample source code.

Drop us a line here or on twitter @gwtsushi and we will be in contact to get your samples added to the repository.