Fri 30 May 2008
Just yesterday I posted about “thinking” to create the Java API to work for Dojo on GWT. And today, it’s kind of official.
Edujini Labs is going to sponsor this project. Check the posting on Eduzine here.
In fact, a mail to the Dojo Team has already been sent about the intimation of the same.
Have a look at the “Hello, World!” on the early-stage DWT.
Thu 29 May 2008
My real love for GWT started only a couple of days ago… and it prompted me to get started with Dojo on GWT.
I have, so far, written a couple of core-classes in Java mainly to abstract out the interaction with JavaScriptObject.
My next target was to directly jump on to dijit, and start creating the UI. And then I realized that it uses mixins. And now I am left wondering what’s the best way to handle mixins.
For the new comers, JavaScript allows single inheritance but Dojo (and other libraries) make use of mixins to pseudo-inherit methods and properties from other objects by copying them to the sub-object.
In Java, this can be achieved only by making use of interfaces. The other possibility is to introduce a class between the parent and the child class that encapsulates the mixin objects.
I think the latter is a better approach. Simply expose the object or may be create delegate methods.
Let me think over it… what’s the best way to marry Java and JavaScript.
Thu 29 May 2008
This is a good news, so it seems. Young blood looking to take control and put things straight. I wish it happens in my country as well. Note that the position is an unpaid post… so, no monetary incentives for Tyler Hammons.
Associated Press reports, “Muskogee, Okla., teen ready for mayoral challenge”. It reads:
The University of Oklahoma freshman is moving out of a dorm and back in with his parents as he gets ready to be sworn in next week as mayor of this 38,000-person city made famous by the Merle Haggard song “Okie From Muskogee.”
However, my favourite is:
As mayor, his first priorities are the creation of an independent ethics commission to monitor elected and appointed city officials. He also wants to establish campaign finance reporting requirements for those running for office.
Thu 29 May 2008
I really don’t know when will the Indian Media become socially responsible.
I cite media as one of the biggest reasons for continuation of Casteism and call for Reservations in the country. I think India is the only country in the world that takes pride in being called backward and people agitating to include themselves in the backward class. What a Shame!
Take the latest incident here, e-Paper from Times of India, May 29th, 2008, Bangalore Edition or directly this item.
I don’t really understand what is the need of the media to dig into such issues. If the categorization is done on the basis of region, gender, age, educational qualification, economic background etc demographics, probably it makes sense. And they are measurable. What’s cast, btw?
Caste! What a ridicule. And unless media gets responsible, I think we will continue to lose lives and property. What do we gain - I am yet to take a note. Some recent incidents:
Hope there’s some saviour who takes off Caste from the political agenda and from the front page in newspaper, and more importantly, does not call for unnecessary articles like the one I mentioned earlier.
Let’s aim towards making an equal India. Classify, but not divide. Segregate but not exclude.
Is anybody listening out there?
Tue 27 May 2008
On Monday, I talked about the training on Visual Studio Team System 2005 Extensibility and I said that I would probably post across a sample piece of code.
But I did not get time.
What more interests me is the web. And there is Google Web Toolkit to help us write structured JavaScript in Java. Sounds great, isn’t it?
So, what I did was to quickly compile a couple of articles on GWT and post at Eduzine™ here and here.
Enjoy working with Google Web Toolkit, JavaScript and Ajax!