Get Gamin !

Off late developers have been working hard to show the non-geeks how to develop nice and fun games and two

such suites are

POPFLY-by Microsoft

and

Playcrafter- Its a startup…..well the getup of this site is niceeeee and again i love startups for their innovative

approach.

well again am in a bit of hurry will keep you guys posted !!

kunal ghosh

(kunalghosh)

Microsoft’s (UN)dyeing attempts at making it big !

“मरता क्या ना करता “

Look !! microsoft’s last attempts to make it big in the dektop OS world !!

Look at MIDORI

Well i must say this is a nice concept !!

but this time we LINUX guys can sue MICrosoft for having used a name being used by a linux project for long !!

About Midori

This is a web based operating system being designed by the microsoft guys still in its infancy.more news !! about the OS will be up SOON !

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kunalghosh

(kunal ghosh)

A very nicely designed promotional video !

check out this video being a product description video it could have been full of a lot of Screen Casts and a lot of slide transitions but this video has done the job using crude looking paper cutouts and using Chartpaper as its screen back ground…. good job !!!! as it turns out the google developers are not geeks after all ! they have good artistic imagination also !

This Blog has changed !!!

Over the past few days i’ve had a tough time deciding which article goes into my non technical blog ang which one goes into my technical blog. And its been a real pain managing them both at the same time.So I’ve decided to merge all my efforts into one blog and organise them into technicla and non technical using tags !! happy reading !

kunal ghosh

(kunalghosh)

Google Web Toolkit-nice tool for writing Javascript

If you have ever designed a webpage using java script you would have realised how difficult it is to check for compatibility with different browsers !! also most coders like me have learnt core programming languages like C or Java and to learn Javascript just for a small work like this is a pain ! literally.

To alleviate the pain of programmers like us , Google engineers have developed the Google Web Toolkit which generates Javascript code from the  Java code written by the user.

obvious advantages  of this tool are:(As stated in google website http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/overview.html)

• Dynamic, reusable UI components
  Create a Widget by compositing other Widgets. Lay out Widgets automatically in Panels. Send your Widget to other developers in a JAR file.
• Really simple RPC
  To communicate from your web application to your web server, you just need to define serializable Java classes for your request and response. In production, GWT automatically serializes the request and deserializes the response from the server. GWT’s RPC mechanism can even handle polymorphic class hierarchies, and you can throw exceptions across the wire.
• Browser history management
  No, AJAX applications don’t need to break the browser’s back button. GWT lets you make your site more usable by easily adding state to the browser’s back button history.
• Real debugging
  In production, your code is compiled to JavaScript, but at development time it runs in the Java virtual machine. That means when your code performs an action like handling a mouse event, you get full-featured Java debugging, with exceptions and the advanced debugging features of IDEs like Eclipse.
• Browser compatible
  Your GWT applications automatically support IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera with no browser detection or special-casing within your code in most cases.
• JUnit integration
  GWT’s direct integration with JUnit lets you unit test both in a debugger and in a browser…and you can even unit test asynchronous RPCs.
• Internationalization
  Easily create efficient internationalized applications and libraries.
• Interoperability and fine-grained control
  If GWT’s class library doesn’t meet your needs, you can mix handwritten JavaScript in your Java source code using our JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI).
• Google API Library: Google Gears support
  We are in the process of building support for using Google APIs in GWT applications. Initially, we are providing support for Google Gears, the recently-launched developer product that extends the browser to allow developers to make web-based applications function even while offline. If you would like to download this library please visit the open source project. We are planning to add support for other Google APIs; if you’d like to help, please check out Making GWT Better.
• Completely Open Source
  All of the code for GWT is available under the Apache 2.0 license. If you are interested in contributing, please visit Making GWT Better.

For a step-by-step installation and usage guide, please see the Getting Started Guide.

How Well Does It Work?

I think it works pretty darn well. The primary metrics we use to evaluate GWT’s effectiveness relative to traditional AJAX development are:

• Compiler-generated JavaScript size
  GWT produces smaller JavaScript downloads for the end user than hand-written AJAX applications. In contrast to the reuse approach of traditional JavaScript libraries, the GWT compiler analyzes your source code to include only the code you actually need, and none of what you don’t.
• End-user performance
  GWT applications are typically faster than their hand-written JavaScript equivalents, and often require far fewer HTTP round-trips. The GWT compiler avoids adding any wrappers around any functionality that is implemented natively in the browser.
• Development time
  With so little time spent debugging problems in individual web browsers, you can spend much more of your time on application functionality. Development time efficiency is our favorite part of GWT.

  kunalghosh
  (kunal ghosh)