Archive for the ‘Professional’ Category

Dojo & GWT – Templated Widgets

We had – and still probably have – a tough time porting Template-Based Widgets in Dojo for Google Web Toolkit. The reason is – Templates defined attach-points and attach-events, variable names / function names that are to be made use of at runtime. However, GWT optimizes the Java function names and as such one does [...]

September 4, 2008    Posted in: Professional, Technology   No Comments

4-Sutras to work with JavaScript

(Sutra: noun, that which runs through and holds things together) JavaScript is a fantastic language to work with. I will, personally, prefer to work with runtime dynamic language like JavaScript than compile-time feature constrained languages like C++ or Java (well, C# is still far richer than C++ and Java). However, working with JavaScript is not [...]

June 16, 2008    Posted in: Professional, Technology   6 Comments

Adobe Flex, RIA and Web 2.0

Last week I delivered a week long training on Adobe Flex 3 (yet again). Apart from the technologies – Adobe Flex and ActionScript – the training aimed to focus on Web 2.0 and RIA. Web 2.0 and RIA, today, are more or less established philosophies. However, what I think is that the world is heavily [...]

June 8, 2008    Posted in: Professional, Technology   7 Comments

A Trainer’s Life – Why he must be a team!

Today, I will try to answer a question, “Why an individual, working directly with end client, cannot survive long in training ?” Well, this question is based on my perspective – “An indiviual cannot go long”. Or, as we call in Hindi, “Akela Chana Bhaand Naheen Phod Sakta (अकेला चना भाड़ नहीं फोड़ सकता)” Given [...]

June 4, 2008    Posted in: Professional   2 Comments

DWT – Dojo on GWT

Just yesterday I posted about “thinking” to create the Java API to work for Dojo on GWT. And today, it’s kind of official. Edujini Labs is going to sponsor this project. Check the posting on Eduzine here. In fact, a mail to the Dojo Team has already been sent about the intimation of the same. [...]

May 30, 2008    Posted in: Professional, Technology   One Comment