The announcement of Google Wave is a bold declaration of where google sees the future of the web. Google, unsurprisingly enough, sees the future of the web as a server side paradigm, with dynamic updates being used to drive the thin client model to capture even more of tasks that where once done client side. Google are extending the server side model of webmail to apply to applications that have been fundamentally client side, such as document authoring, IM and chat.[Read More]
Posted at 12:32PM Jul 01, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
Bad Robot! Google Android is evil
Webtide has been putting some effort into porting Jetty onto Google's Android mobile phone platform. We were seduced to expend this effort by the promise from Google that android would provide "a new level of openness". Yet we may be forced to abandon this effort as Google's bad robot breaks Asimovs 3 laws of Robotics as they have been modified for openness by the the eclipse foundation.[Read More]
Posted at 10:34AM Aug 09, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[5]
Gaming with GWT and Jetty continuations
The Google Widget Toolkit allows Ajax applications to be developed in java code using the traditional UI widget paradigm. The toolkit includes support for RPC, but not for comet style Ajax push. I've been working with Ryan Dewsbury of www.aplayr.com to convert their GWT powered games of risk and pocker to use Jetty continuations. First... play a lot of poker![Read More]
Posted at 05:52AM Dec 08, 2006 by gregw in General | Comments[7]
