Olympic athlete and later missionary Eric Liddle said in the movie Chariots of Fire, “When I run, I feel His pleasure.” There have been a few times in my career when I have had the exhilarating sense of knowing that this is what I was made for. Now is one of those times, and I [...]
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This has been a great week overall. Lots of late nights, but gained real traction. You can now create and delete prayer lists, and quickly enter items in a list. Added a bit of eye candy (such as animated loading… graphics). I got quite a bit deeper into the AppEngine DataStore this week and feel [...]
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Well, it’s starting to feel like a software project. I had hoped to announce a limited beta last week in which individual users could create new prayer lists and add items; however, I think I’m about a week behind. I spent a good deal of time learning how to navigate from one “place” to another [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Today marks the my last day of full-time employment with one of the world’s most admired software companies. Why would I leave great people, pay, and benefits to devote four months to the RememberOneAnother project? Especially in this economy? In short, it is a confluence of two ideas:
1. The Lord Jesus Christ whom I serve [...]
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So here we are, five weeks into this grand little project, and I’m finally getting around to creating the much-promised blog so folks can follow our progress.
By way of introduction, the idea for RememberOneAnother was conceived a few months ago while I was enjoying a burrito at Chipotle and a time of earnest reflection about [...]
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