Endgame Viable

4 entries. 1,319 words.

October, 2009

• Exploring Java Web Development, Part 1. 2009-10-25 3:39 AM.
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  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. 480 words.
• Exploring Java Web Development, Part 2. 2009-10-26 12:28 AM.
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  Day two of reacquainting myself with JSP development, wherein we learn that IDEs are powerful tools but they are not very friendly to newcomers. 422 words.
• Exploring Java Web Development, Part 3. 2009-10-29 10:32 PM.
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  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. 167 words.

November, 2009

• A Peek at Google Web Toolkit. 2009-11-01 1:20 PM.
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  • thomaskrehbiel.com
  
  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. 250 words.