donjaime_hn

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by donjaime_hn 13y ago
Very cool :). A few questions. What is the strategy is for concurrent modification of data? What are the consistency guarantees for the sync operation?
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by donjaime_hn 14y ago
I can't speak to the details of the decision. But what I can say is that aside from canning our site, Google treated us pretty darn well. We were all offered relocation options to other Google offices, which would come with cost of living p
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by donjaime_hn 14y ago
Yup! Vert.x is pretty cool :).
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by donjaime_hn 14y ago
We decided to have a little fun with the open sourcing and play with some cool new open source tech for a change :). I settled on vert.x (the server container that requires Java 7) because it seemed to have a lot of affordances out of the b
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by donjaime_hn 14y ago
Collaborative cursors and selection highlighting broke during the open sourcing. What we released contains a ton of brand new code since we essentially had to build from scratch a one-off local server to drive the parts of the client that i
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by donjaime_hn 16y ago
To be fair, I think the performance of that page has something to do with the embed API, and the face that it was trying to load multiple copies of wave. The actual wave client performs pretty well now.
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by donjaime_hn 16y ago
erm... sounds like you would be better off with a laptop/netbook ;) Would be a good bit cheaper too.
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by donjaime_hn 17y ago
I think the real selling point for them is their moderation tool for sifting through all the twitter/blog comment noise. I gave it a try and I liked it. I used it along with their API to make a "vanity quotes dashboard" for some open source
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by donjaime_hn 17y ago
Probably not. I sometimes get annoyed when people, faced with the choice of gaining some domain knowledge before forming an opinion, decide to instead just be loud about things they know little about. Personal attacks are lame though, even
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by donjaime_hn 17y ago
You should look at UiBinder (part of GWT 2.0). You write HTML and CSS, stick it into a UIBinder template. And in 5 minutes you can take a designed mock and have it bound to a Java class in a very efficient way. You get things like CSS names
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by donjaime_hn 17y ago
You clearly didn't RTFA. I'll give you my personal reasons for liking GWT in a few short bullets. 1. Better tooling - IDE refactoring when I need to change things. Red squigglies when I make a typo or reference something thats not there. A
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by donjaime_hn 17y ago
If you have a chrome window open, or a zombie chrome process, running it again will just fork a new window from the existing browser process. Make sure you shut them all down before running.
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by donjaime_hn 17y ago
Make sure you run chrome with the flag --enable-extension-timeline-api You have to enable the instrumentation as explained in the getting started doc: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/speedtracer/get-started.ht...
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by donjaime_hn 17y ago
It was developed by members of the GWT team and was released as part of the GWT 2.0 launch, but it will work with any web application.