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Sunday, November 1, 2009

A Peek at Google Web Toolkit

Tom · Krehbiel Tech · Development/Java, Technology/Google · Sunday, Nov 1, 2009, 8:20 AM · 462 words · from atomapi · shorturl · 9 comments · http://twitter.com/tkrehbiel/status/836902550

So I'm looking over this Google Web Toolkit thing since someone around here thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.  I hate to disappoint but it's conceptually the same as the much-hated ASP.NET WebForms - it's a framework to abstract HTML and Javascript away from the programmer.  But instead of .NET and Visual Studio, Google's version is based on Java and Eclipse.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Exploring Java Web Development, Part 3

Tom · Krehbiel Tech · Development/Java · Thursday, Oct 29, 2009, 6:32 PM · 174 words · from atomapi · shorturl · 2 comments · http://twitter.com/tkrehbiel/status/837144815

I’m happy to report that I’ve completed resurrecting JWebTrack, the terribly feature-incomplete bug tracking project I did for a Java class oh so long ago.  After building an appropriate database and populating it with some data, the app worked like a charm.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Exploring Java Web Development, Part 2

Tom · Krehbiel Tech · Development/Java · Sunday, Oct 25, 2009, 8:28 PM · 446 words · from atomapi · shorturl · 2 comments · http://twitter.com/tkrehbiel/status/837349531

Day two of reacquainting myself with JSP development, wherein we learn that IDEs are powerful tools but they are not very friendly to newcomers.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Exploring Java Web Development, Part 1

Tom · Krehbiel Tech · Development/Java · Saturday, Oct 24, 2009, 11:39 PM · 503 words · from atomapi · shorturl · 2 comments · http://twitter.com/tkrehbiel/status/837384246

Out of curiosity and recent disgruntlement with ASP.NET I decided to look into Java web development.  I haven’t done this since around 2002, so of course I’ve forgotten everything I ever knew about it.  Herein I will attempt to document the knowledge I uncover.

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