GWT-ing

A friend of mine introduced me to GWT. Google Web Toolkit. 

According to Google  "Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript."

Its been around for a few years now - since 2006 version 1 release, and gaining traction. I spend about 3 four hours since last night looking at it and really like what I saw.  Specially given the issues currently my client is facing on writing a Web 2.0 app. 

From what little I could figure out.. programmers write AJAX apps using Java, and when that app is deployed, the GWT cross-compiler translates the Java Application to a set of JS files that are very much optimized.  Write in java - run as javascript?  nice!

For those who are interested, a comparison of the different JavaScript frameworks is available here

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Design Process and hunger

the Indian Middle Class - 300 Million folks with ideas, time, and the money to experiment with those ideas  -  . Or you can expand the geography and thus the number. 

last night I was talking to a moderately successful entrepreneur friend from US who has been traveling every year to India for the last three years.  He is amazed by the growth, and mind it, his company in US is one of the top 50 companies fastest growing companies in the region it operates.

that part of the world he is visiting still has another 300 million below or close to poverty line  ( as defined by??).

the abstract syntax that connects money with success trickles down for some philanthroprenuers in designing ways to uplift the socio-economic curve for many.

as a result you end up with a "muslim" from a corruption ridden "hindu" state to meet with a "black" president in the "white" house 

or you can get - adam

the design of everyday things is living with complexity now.

so what happened to the Keep it Simple Stupid principle?

 
-- Animikh  Sen
http://www.linkedin.com/in/animikh

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Chief Happiness Officer

I am not an idealist by any stretch of the word. but somehow decided
to bing the word. and came across this nice little website

Ideallist.org .. Imagine.Connect.Act. ... really liked it.
According to their own words... 'Idealist is a project of Action
Without Borders, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 with offices
in the United States and Argentina. Idealist is an interactive site
where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas,
locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps toward building a
world where all people can lead free and dignified lives."

Its a very well organized listing site of volunteer opportunities,
jobs, consultants, speakers, events - across the globe

There is a Pedal Patch Community in California who is looking for
volunteers to work as Gardening Enthusiast;

National Lawyers Guild in NY is looking for volunteers to open
letters from prisoners requesting the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook, a
self-help guide enabling prisoners to file civil suits for violations
of their rights while in prison. (Please visit http://jailhouselaw.org
for more info).

Another interesting job posting - "Chief Happiness Officer " -
http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/370626-0/c

nice corner on the web.

- A

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