Object Oriented Analysis and Design is certainly not new to the enterprise software workforce, but how is it actually carried forth in industry? Are software engineering groups reaping the benefits...
I recently read a blog on the Intel Software Network describing the reduced execution flow readability in object-oriented systems that implement a domain model as being a "flaw" in object-oriented ...
Our goal when writing code is to write 'high-quality' code, not just hack together what appears to work and moving on to the next set of functionality. When writing 'high-quality' software, we must...
I am planning a series of posts that walk a reader through building a simplistic application using Ext-GWT as the choice of technology for the user interface, Hibernate as the ORM, HSQLDB as the b...
I am working on the next Ext-GWT blog, but in the interim, I would like to share an awesome podcast that I found at Scott Hanselman's blog. He interviews Robert C. Martin (author of a few excellent...
The Ext-GWT (GXT) library uses a "loader-store" functionality to handle manipulating UI models (or domain objects) and binding them to GXT widgets. The Ext team has posted a simplistic overview doc...
Although the gwt-maven-plugin from codehaus is going through the merge with the gwt-maven plugin from Google Code, I wanted to share with you how building the Ext-GWT mail application with the gwt-...
Apache Maven is a popular project-management tool that allows you to model your projects in XML and then streamline the development lifecycle by taking advantage of dependency management and conven...
For this entry, being the first, I would like to help the Ext-GWT community (especially those newly introduced to the framework) grasp a firm understanding of the reference "Mail" application, spec...