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Kudos to Summit Mobile Solutions!

Kudos to our friends Bill Heitzeg and Terry Montgomery and Joy Gradin of Summit Mobile Solutions , who have a very cool web application (written in Java and GWT ) to manage cell phone costs, and who now...

Posted 07 December 2007 02:39 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Java, Ann Arbor, GWT

NetBeans 6, Beta 2 ....

Has been released. Josh Marinacci says he's dumped all old versions of NetBeans AND Eclipse from his system. Hmm, interesting. I'm not sure I'm ready to go that far, but I *do* think it's...

Posted 23 October 2007 10:00 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Java, GWT, IDE

Lots of cool Java news this week!

JavaFX plugin, GoogleGears, and GWT I just ran across this article , which tells how to use Eclipse for building JavaFX. And, GoogleGears is all the rage today too. GoogleGears is a browser extension that...

Posted 01 June 2007 04:21 AM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Eclipse, Google Web Toolkit, GWT, JavaFX, GoogleGears, Bruce Johnson, plugin

UI Smackdown: Session 4

Combining Flex with other technologies Is it possible to combine Flex with other technologies? We saw James Ward build a Flex front end for a TurboGears app at CodeMash . What else makes sense? Those are...

Posted 24 April 2007 06:46 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: TurboGears, Javascript, CodeMash, Flex, GWT, searchability, ActionScript

UI Smackdown: Session 1

Web App Limits: Real World Experiences A group convened a session to talk about web applications, and where they break down with real world experience. The limitations were noted as: 1. Javascript requires...

Posted 24 April 2007 12:10 AM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: AJAX, Javascript, Flex, Adobe, WPF, GWT, GWT Designer

It's a busy week in Ann Arbor!

I’m still trying to finish up my blog from my visit to Microsoft last week (and from the Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing over the weekend), but I wanted to make sure that I mentioned the...

Posted 02 April 2007 07:09 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Java, Microsoft, Hibernate, AACS, Computer Society, Mozilla, Flex, AAJUG, WPF, GWT, JUG, workshop, media, tamarin, JMS, web apps

UI Smackdown 2007 Early Bird Expires Today

If you’ve been planning to attend the User Interface Smackdown 2007 event to explore GWT, Flex, and WPF, today is the last day to get early bird pricing. At close of business today, we’ll be...

Posted 26 March 2007 03:39 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft, Open Spaces, SRT Solutions, Flex, Adobe, user interface, WPF, GWT, James Ward, Smackdown, Google checkout

UI Smackdown 2007 Explained

Is this wrestling or deciphering software technologies? Definitely the latter! A few people have asked me about the name we chose for our user interface event on April 4, which will include Flex , GWT...

Posted 23 March 2007 09:58 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft, SRT Solutions, Flex, Adobe, WPF, Google, GWT, James Ward, UI Smackdown, Windows Presentation Foundation, Apollo, Web toolkit

User Interface Smackdown 2007

Explore Google's GWT, Adobe's Flex, and Microsoft's WPF for creating user interfaces Registration is now open for the User Interface Smackdown 2007 , being held April 4, 2007 at the Ann Arbor...

Posted 16 March 2007 08:02 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft, software, Open Spaces, SRT Solutions, Dianne Marsh, Bill Wagner, Flex, Adobe, WPF, Google, GWT, James Ward

Java Posse Roundup: Day 3

Thursday, March 8 By Thursday, people were really getting the knack of open spaces conferences. Those who had held back in earlier days were right in the thick of things at this point. People were resisting...

Posted 13 March 2007 09:42 PM by dmarsh | with no comments

Filed under: Java, Open Spaces, Java Posse, Roundup, GWT, Java Posse Roundup, fonts, Graffle, UI Design