Norio's blog

GWT and Ext GWT (GXT) are interesting platforms to develop complex web applications using Java. It supports fancy UIs and all client-side code gets compiled into JavaScript.

There are a couple of non-obvious gotchas though that will make your application crash and burn without a clear error message.

If you have a lot of projects in your Eclipse workspace you should check out the Dynamic Working Sets plug-in.

Ant includes a Tstamp task that allows a property to be set to the current date and time in a given format. Unfortunately there is no way to get that value as a Unix time (epoch).

Lately I have been rewriting the dashboard that I use to monitor the health of my business to a GWT application running on the Google App Engine.

I have a new Dell Precision M6500 laptop. It replaces my 4 year old Dell XPS M1710.

During MobileCamp Brussels I talked about the fietsknoopunten layer for Layar I have created some time ago.

I'm not a big fan of the new default theme in Ubuntu 10.04. It's a bit too much I-wanna-look-like-Apple IMHO.

Fortunately the bisigi project contains a couple of really nice themes that you can use instead. Check them out.

After a recent update on my Ubuntu server some directories had disappeared from a couple of Samba shares.

I have released an open source Twunch application for the Android platform.

Earlier this year I started collecting all afvalkalenders for 2010 that people have created and shared in Google Calendar on afvalkalenders.be. Currently the site lists 43 calenders.