Thursday, October 8, 2009

GWT - best practices

GWT tutorials is a good way to learn basics and even to build simple prototypes, but it's certainly not enough information to start building real life application. That's why I was so glad to find this video from Google I/O 2009 which describes best practices for architectecting GWT application.

-=Oleg=-

Friday, October 2, 2009

New Direction - Google App Engine

As it often happened in developers life, as soon as you become an expert in something, the life throws you a new project which requires you to learn brand new  languages, platforms, frameworks, technologies, etc... Suddenly your work day routine changes from 80% coding and 20% research to 99% of learning and researching.

Only six month ago I started working with Silverlight. We had some fun playing with new power tool, we've built the a series of prototypes... and that was the end of Silverlight journey.

New mission is Google App Engine.  Our language of choice is Java. My experience with Java - none. So far looking at zillions of Java frameworks makes me dizzy. After spending 2 days on learning Struts 2 I've realized that the learning curve is expected to be very deep. I'm diving in... - wish me good luck.

-=Oleg=-