Category Archives: GWT Client

Phil 12.12.11

10:00 –  5:00 VISIBILITY

  • It’s my first day back(ish) at work! I really miss my dual monitors!
    • Trying to get my laptop set up as a second monitor
    • Windows is all messed up. Trying Ubuntu 10.1. Nope, need a newer kernel
    • Trying Linux Mint. Better so far… Nope. Installer hangs repeatedly.
    • Open SUSE 12.1? (because these guys say so). And it’s awesome, but the laptop keeps freezing whenever I bring up Firefox. Looks like it has a one year warranty, so I guess I’ll try to return it.
  • Setting up my IDE (Eclipse 3.7)
    • Maven is in and up, adding environment variables
    • Adding GWT support. It turns out that There is a version of GWT designer that does not run in eclipse that has more features. You can find it here.
  • Added a blog page for things GWT

Phil 12.2.11

8:30 – VISIBILITY

  • Installed Dong’s new software onto the dual-facing server and added redirects to the instances on Jeff’s server.
  • Notes from meeting with Tangie
    • PA
      • Identifier dropdown needs some kind of labeling, like id:foo, name: bar, etc. The currne tscheme with all the commas doesn’t work
      • The entry screen is getting too busy. We need to clarify the layout
        • Move help to a popup?
        • Choose the visible navigation?
      • Add Kristi’s help and splash screen link to tutorial
      • The grid of attributes sometimes stretches outside the containing panel, we should make the panel wider
      • Incomplete projects should not be listed
      • Too many plurals
      • Confusion between “current” state and “current” month. Let’s change “current” month to “reporting” month
      • Is the cumulative or monthly amount in? I didn’t see it.
    • PPM
      • Add Name to browser tab. Currently it’s “#”
      • Add a button that allows data to be filled on the Edit Project page, not just the financial reporting page

Phil 12.1.11

8:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Starting off the day from home. Which means I’m installing GWT. Might as well try it on the new (3.7) Eclipse while I’m at it.
  • Working through the GWT RPC Tutorial, which is not one of their better ones. I think its not been kept up to date. It’s good enough though.
  • Here’s the result. The server is now computing the stock price and sending the result to the client

Phil 11.30.11

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

  • Backups indicate nothing is happening. Ah well. We’ll deploy the new code next week and see if we can’t get things moving. I’ll contact Tangie tomorrow.
  • Working on RPC with GWT. Looks pretty straightforward. I want to understand the limitations on sharing a class between the client and the server.
  • Mike’s starting to get logging working in GWT.
  • Found the National Capital Area Google Technology User’s Group
  • Added name and password saving to the application. THe easy answer, storing encrypted data didn’t work. saving view state messed up the views. Using FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.persistenceManager.setProperty() worked, but then I didn’t feel right about leaving a password out in plain text, so I wrote some crappy encryption using Perlin noise that provides a nice looking figleaf.