The Google Dart team has announced a new version of the Dart Editor. You can get it here. Here are the changes: Initial VM launch support… toolbar button and .options file Generate JS only for browser applications Font scaling for code editor, libraries view, problems view Search box improvements and cleanup Fixed memory leak when [...]
December 8th, 2011
Google Dart native on WebKit?
It looks like Dart is going to become native on the WebKit Browser. On monday some Googlers sent message to the WebKit folks proposing to add Dart bindings to the software. Google Developer Vijay Menon said, native bindings might be preferred over “language X to javascript tools” because its quicker without compiling to javascript developers [...]
December 8th, 2011
GTUG – Google Dart Talk (with Seth Ladd)
Seth Ladd on Google Dart Seth Ladd is a “Google Advocate”. In this talk he speaks about Google Dart and explains why it is cool (and yes, I agree it is cool). This is a pretty nice brown bag with a size of 70 minutes. If you still have no clue on Dart look at [...]
December 8th, 2011
Bookreview: Apache Maven 3 Cookbook
In my limited spare time I was reading the Apache Maven 3 Cookbook by Srirangan. It is (as the title suggests) from the Cookbook series which aims to provide answers to commons problems. One could say, it some kind of FAQ, just that it goes deeper very often. After reading the great and very useful [...]
December 5th, 2011
Android AutoComplete with JSON Data served by Struts 2
Recently I decided not to use Phonegap/Callback for my new Android app but to build it native. With IntelliJ the first steps were so straightforward and promising that I was excited to work in the Java language, which is more natural to me than JavaScript. So far I have not regret my decision, except that [...]
December 3rd, 2011
New Dart Editor Version 1910
Google just announced a new Dart Editor version. You can get if from here: http://gsdview.appspot.com/dart-editor-archive-integration/latest/ These are the improvements: Moved bundled libraries out of plugins into new “libraries” directory Indexer improvements including integration into builder Editor tab tooltip shows path of the files being edited Problems view sorting fixes New File wizard to opens created [...]
November 28th, 2011
Google Dart at the PHPMagazin
A small surprise for me too – have not thought I would write an article for the PHPMagazin this year. But it actually happened – it is about my current favorite topic Dart. Enjoy the reading and as always: feedback welcome!
November 20th, 2011
Dart: Creating a dynamic list with Dart, PHP and JSON
Using an ajax request to update the dom with data from a server is a standard use case in todays web programming. With Dart this task is pretty trivial. In this blog post I would like to describe how one can use Dart to connect to a server running a PHP script. In addition, the [...]
November 17th, 2011
Adobe Flex coming to the Apache Software Foundation?
I sense a pattern: after Google Wave (remember?), OpenOffice.org, Symphony and so on now Adobe seem to have plans to donate Flex to the Apache Software Foundation. I was looking yesterday at the Spoon Projects homepage, were I got the impression that Flex will go to there. But now even there the announcement has changed: [...]
November 15th, 2011
Create PDF files with Cocoon 3 and Struts 2
Finally I came to the situation with Time & Bill that I need to create invoices. Of course, invoices need to be downloadable in the PDF format. First I thought I would use Apache PDFBox. My idea was to upload some kind of template pdf an replace some strings with my content. But I failed; [...]
