http://binarymuse.net From the mind of a geek Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:54:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ This post is part of the “ITworks Design Journal” series. ExtJS has been working on version 2.x of GXT, built upon GWT version 1.6. Recently, ExtJS released the milestone 1 "release" of GXT, and I decided to upgrade and see what all the fuss was about. Before I could test anything, some changes ... http://binarymuse.net/2009/04/23/itworks-design-journal-gwt-16-and-gxt-20/ This post is part of the “ITworks Design Journal” series. After deciding on a language and framework for the new inventory/work order application, I started to write some code. I wrote a couple of samples just to get the hang of the widgets and how handlers worked and all that jazz. ... http://binarymuse.net/2009/03/27/itworks-design-journal-spaghetti-code/ This post is part of the "ITworks Design Journal" series. We currently use an enterprise-level application for managing work orders, and an in-house web site for managing assets. After sitting down and looking at these two systems, we came to the conclusions that (1) the work order system was more powerful ... http://binarymuse.net/2009/03/27/itworks-design-journal-language-and-framework/ Where I work, I am helping to design and implement a piece of software for us (the IT department) that allows us to manage and track assets and work orders. I have decided to keep an ongoing journal, of sorts, regarding the design of this software, partially because some people ... http://binarymuse.net/2009/03/27/itworks-design-journal/