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Re:Ext JS 3.0 RC1 released (Samples) on Thursday April 16, 2009 @10:40AM (#565209)
Thanks. Had no idea.
Re:Ext JS 3.0 RC1 released (Samples) on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:33PM (#564284)
Please excuse my ignorance - why do they have both a commercial license and an MIT license? I'm confused. If I want to use it on my commercial site, don't I have to pay for a commercial license? If so, why should I care whether they have an MIT license also? Sorry, licensing is something I never really looked into.
Re:Ext JS 3.0 RC1 released (Samples) on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @05:54PM (#564237)
It's $289 to use this?

http://extjs.com/store/extjs/

Re:Ask HN: Anyone using GWT in an app? on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @05:43PM (#564225)
I'm not a JS expert but judging by the questions on S.O. I had the impression that few people had bad things to say about jQuery. Was not aware of its 'fragility'. Good to know.

You say: "GWT seems like a platform for Swing programmers who don't want to deal with JavaScript's idiosyncrasies and browser quirks." But couldn't you say the same about jQuery?

In fact, GWT requires you to understand the DOM and to get into the more advanced tricks with GWT there are features to let you write js directly in your Java code.

Not sure what you mean by "ease data transfer": "If you're doing a lot of data manipulation and storage with AJAX, GWT may actually be the way to go". Do you mean if your ajax passes a lot of data back and forth, then GWT might help because its minified and optimized?

Re:Flapjax: A Programming Language for Ajax Applications [pdf] on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @05:17PM (#564188)
Wasn't this launched in 2006? Why post it here now as if it's just been introduced?

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/flapjax-griddle-w...

Ask HN: Anyone using GWT in an app?

Posted by monkeybusiness on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @04:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was thinking about using GWT on App Engine but the more I think about it, the less I see the need for writing Java code for my client-side JS. Anyone else feel this is overkill and a JS library like jquery makes more sense?Come to think of it, is there ever a good justification for using GWT?

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Re:Ask: Who is Tara Ploughman? on Thursday April 09, 2009 @03:06PM (#554948)
Only if everyone reading this thread commits to a vow of silence and in return pg (or should I say Tara?) agrees to take care of our children after we die.
Re:Ask: Who is Tara Ploughman? on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:59PM (#554934)
Did you really figure this out in the time since the question was posed? Please say no, so I don't feel so inadequate.
Re:Ask: Who is Tara Ploughman? on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:43PM (#554899)
You're right. It's strange to find her quotes in so many places without any biographical information. Now I'm curious too. Combined with the fact that my googling pride has been hurt.
Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the raw food diet? on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:36PM (#554891)
I think it temporarily changes the way you feel emotionally - because our diet is tied into our mood. Some people who embark on the diet - including some people very close to me - read more into their altered mood than they ought to.
Re:Programmer Competency Matrix on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:32PM (#554885)
Yep. It's a dick measuring contest, geek-style. At least I'm going to call it that since I did so badly. It's amazing I get anything done. And yet . . . I do.
Re:Ask HN: How are you monetizing your site? on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:30PM (#554882)
Making money is so last year.