http://binarymuse.net From the mind of a geek Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:54:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought I would take a quick moment to preset GWT-Wizard, a wizard widget I designed for GWT. GWT-Wizard is very configurable, allowing you to customize everything about the Wizard--down to creating your own custom view to plug into the widget--but also comes with a set of sane defaults that allow ... http://binarymuse.net/2010/04/22/gwt-wizard-a-wizard-widget-for-your-project/ I've only been using a Mac for about half a year now, although I've wanted one for quite a while longer. The performance, stability and flexibility of Unix combined with the elegance and ease-of-use for day-to-day tasks of Cocoa was a big draw to me. However, there has always been ... http://binarymuse.net/2010/04/05/flash-101-to-bring-performance-upgrades-to-the-mac/ For a new project I am interested in starting, I want to serve a GWT application with an embedded Jetty server. I wasn't sure how to go about doing so, but it turns out it's easier than I could ever have expected! Check it out below (or, for you folks ... http://binarymuse.net/2010/03/27/serving-a-gwt-application-with-an-embedded-jetty-server/ Matt Gemmell brings up an interesting point in a recent blog post regarding user choice and defaults in software design. But a problem arises when you allow precision-based design principles to hinder user experience. All too often, when faced with a decision about how to implement certain functionality, engineers take the ... http://binarymuse.net/2010/03/12/engineer-thinking-and-the-art-of-software-engineering/ This is a nifty tip I picked up somewhere on the Internet to show the Git or Subversion branch you are currently working in on the command line prompt, which I modified to include your stash level. I haven't done a ton of serious programming under Subversion, but I know ... http://binarymuse.net/2010/02/22/current-working-git-or-snv-branch-on-the-prompt/ smallsoftware dreamland by ~lopagof at deviantART There are a lot of choices in the world of technology these days, and it doesn't take a well-thought-out Google query to find a huge following of people on any side of any given topic. Of course, there isn't a digital war older or that ... http://binarymuse.net/2010/02/20/the-operating-system-wars-cant-we-all-just-get-along/ Prior to my current job, I never really did any "serious" programming. I had a few web sites, some tools and such I created for myself at home, and so on. The biggest team I worked on for a serious project was two people strong--myself and a good friend of ... http://binarymuse.net/2010/02/16/how-come-no-one-told-me-about-git/ You may have heard the name “Google Wave” thrown around recently in tech news. Google Wave is Google’s hot new product, still in development and testing via an invitation, much like how Gmail started out. But what is Google Wave? Well, let’s start there. What Is Google Wave? When I was trying ... http://binarymuse.net/2009/10/21/why-you-should-be-excited-about-google-wave/ This post is part of the “ITworks Design Journal” series. In a prior post, I mused about the advantages and disadvantages of using GWT's RPC implementaion for server-side communication versus something like another server-side technology with JSON. I went and found some folks more experienced with GWT than I, did some reading, ... http://binarymuse.net/2009/05/26/itworks-design-journal-gwt-rpc-it-is/ This post is part of the “ITworks Design Journal” series. Currently, ITworks uses JSON generated via PHP for client-server communication. This decision was made for several reasons: I am not extremely familiar with Java servlets or serving them (ie, Tomcat, etc) I am not familiar ... http://binarymuse.net/2009/05/15/itworks-design-journal-gwt-rpc-vs-json/