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Week 3 Wrap-up

This was a hugely productive week, both in terms of clawing my way up the GWT learning curve as well as eliminating some of the highest risk parts of the project. I successfully rewired the fledgling app into good MVP form using the outstanding gwt-presenter and gwt-dispatch frameworks. I now have in place a very [...]

Week 2 Wrap-Up

Week 2 progress was good, though not quite what I expected. I had hoped to spend most of my time creating the user interface, and instead spent most of it learning about the Model-View-Presenter pattern for use with GWT development and creating some framework code to “get browser history right” from the beginning. So far, [...]

Google AppEngine Rocks

So far so good with Google AppEngine. I was at first afraid that I would have to create separate model objects on both the client and server side as the GWT compiler was complaining about model classes not being serializable (DTOs, yuck). Since my model class did in fact implement Serializable, I thought it was the [...]

Log in with your Google account

The initial releases of RememberOneAnother will be hosted using Google AppEngine because it’s inexpensive and a relatively simple way to get started. A side benefit is that you’ll be able to use your Google account (Gmail, etc.) to log in. I got this working today patterned after the StockWatcher sample app for GWT. You can try [...]