News from January, 2011

  2011/01/07
Google App Engine for Java, Part 1 - Rev it up!
Last changed: Jan 07, 2011 09:11 by Bartolomeo Sorrentino
Labels: gwt, gae

Summary

Summary:  Remember when Google App Engine was just for Pythonistas? Those were some dark days. Google Inc. opened up its cloud-computing platform to Java™ developers in April 2009. In this three-part article series, Java technology author and trainer Rick Hightower gets you started with this reliable, robust, and fun platform for Java-based development. In this article, you'll get an overview of why Google App Engine for Java could be the deployment platform for your next highly scalable killer app, then start using the Google Plugin for Eclipse to build two example apps: one based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and one based on the Java Servlet API. You'll learn for yourself what a difference Google App Engine for Java makes, both in building out an application from scratch and in deploying it to the tune of up to five million views. (And that's just the free version.)>> Continue ....

Posted at 07 Jan @ 9:15 AM by Bartolomeo Sorrentino | 0 Comments
  2011/01/09
XCODE + GIT - Take a look to DTerm a command line anywhere and everywhere
Last changed: Jan 09, 2011 13:11 by Bartolomeo Sorrentino
Labels: xcode, git, utility, command, line

Summary

Command line work isn't a separate task that should live on its own—it's an integrated part of your natural workflow. DTerm provides a context-sensitive command line that makes it fast and easy to run commands on the files you're working with and then use the results of those commands. DTerm Home

Posted at 09 Jan @ 1:10 PM by Bartolomeo Sorrentino | 0 Comments
Build dynamic user interfaces with Android and XML
Last changed: Jan 09, 2011 15:00 by Bartolomeo Sorrentino
Labels: android, xml, webservice, mask

Summary

A number of websites cater to non-profits that provide easily set-up and used forms for taking polls and collecting data. This tutorial introduces a simple architecture for designing similar applications for Android—dynamic user interfaces that allow non-programmers to collect data from mobile users.
You will create an example forms engine in this tutorial with both server and mobile sides. >> Continue ...

Posted at 09 Jan @ 3:00 PM by Bartolomeo Sorrentino | 0 Comments
Jersey + Guice on Google App Engine Java
Last changed: Jan 09, 2011 17:41 by Bartolomeo Sorrentino
Labels: gae, jersey, objectify, rest, xml, json, cloud, services

Summary

This tutorial will demonstrate how to setup Google Guice(dependency injection) with JAX-RS Jersey(REST) plus Objectify(Google Data Store) on top of Google App Engine Java platform.

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Posted at 09 Jan @ 5:38 PM by Bartolomeo Sorrentino | 0 Comments
  2011/01/19
GWT GXT and Maven howto
Last changed: Jan 19, 2011 09:11 by Bartolomeo Sorrentino

Summary

This tutorial covers step-by-step creation of a simple GXT/GWT/Maven project utilizing the following tools:

  • Maven Eclipse plugin
  • Maven GWT plugin
  • GWT SDK
  • Google Eclipse plugin
  • ExtGWT

It's intended for developers and anyone who wants to become familiar with GWT and the toolstack >> Continue ....

Posted at 19 Jan @ 9:01 AM by Bartolomeo Sorrentino | 0 Comments
  2011/01/31
Visualising Garbage Collection in the JVM
Last changed: Feb 01, 2011 10:01 by Bartolomeo Sorrentino

Summary

A very nice introduction to garbage collection in the JVM accompanied with a little application that allows you to visually monitor the GC's activity using the JVisualVM tool.
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Posted at 31 Jan @ 10:11 PM by Bartolomeo Sorrentino | 3 Comments