Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

I will be buying a new phone soon (the old employer's BlackBerry is going away) and have been looking at getting an iPhone. I am a notorious hardware holdout, rather than an edge cutter (I like the 2 gens ago chips, they are fast *and* cheap - still typing this on a MacBook core duo I got a few years back, still works fine). That, combined with the fact that the company decided for me in the past, is the reason I don't have an iPhone already.

As an aside, the reason I noticed this is that Cooper twittered it (I am one of those Dvorak style Twitter curmudgeon holdouts, but I do see the tweets from time to time on Facebook ;)).

Decent tutorial by Stephen Callaghan at Shinetech.

Walks through start to finish, setting up Maven, configuring GWT-Maven, building a separate service JAR (for DTO support), building GWT services using Spring, creating a GWT client for it all - and lastly, running it via Maven.

Article states that GWT Maven integration is "in it's infancy," which frankly is unfair, but all in all it's a very good - albeit not perfect - example.

And, it uses less memory than IE and Opera as well.

Firefox 3 has gotten a lot of focused effort on cutting the footprint and improving the performance. As Ryan Paul at Artima notes the work has paid off - FF3b4 takes up a lot less memory and is faster.

Also interesting is that the Mozilla team is even talking about taking FF to mobile environments, something the Ars story also touches on:

This is not more Air news, it's AIR news, silly.

AIR is no longer in the labs, it's now official: Adobe AIR. This is big news today (even at conventional media outlets like the NYtimes), and really it should be, because it is a very interesting technology (though I am not personally willing to bite down on the proprietary nature of the SDKs and such required, I still acknowledge it's a damn cool platform).

The good Dr. replies very diplomatically about GWT, and sort of passes on Android. Yet he seems a bit frustrated by the questions.

One of the follow up questions compares GWT and FX and asks if FX will take the same type approach (emitting browser native code, rather than applets). Gosling says Ajax will only take you so far, but then admits that applets basically suck (they are working on making applets better, bottom line).

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