I originally posted this article on my old personal blog around this time last year for Ubuntu 9.1 as I was having problems getting my O2 mobile Broadband E1752 Dongle to work. I certainly upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04, which I had heard solved the problem but I still couldn’t get it to work, so looked up my own old tutorial and it worked. Continue reading ‘o2 Broadband E1752 Dongle Working on Ubuntu 10.04′
At some point in your GWT development, you’ll want to start communicating with a server. Handily, GWT has a lot of stuff built in to help you do this in as easy a way as possible. The GWT RPC framework is very helpful indeed for just this, and this post will show you how to create your RPC services easily. Continue reading ‘A tutorial on Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) in Google Web Toolkit’
According to this article by eWeek.com, and by extension Apple themselves, Apple collect location data from your browser every 12 hours, though they do anonymise and encrypt it (though how much anonymising can be done with, for example, your home address, I don’t know). Continue reading ‘How to prevent Apple getting your location data every 12 hours’
In a nutshell, GWT and the html5 audio tag work very well with one another. It’s a rather simple matter to interface with the audio tag through strategic use of JSNI (JavaScriptNativeInterface). Basically, JSNI means that you can get your Javascript all up in your Java. Continue reading ‘How to use HTML5 audio tag with GWT’
Here at the Flax Project headquarters, we use Eclipse as our development environment. This is for a couple of reasons: It’s fully cross-platform, open source, it works fairly well, and it’s got a GWT plugin. While you can, technically, develop GWT web applications without using the plugin or indeed Eclipse, I can’t recommend it. Now, I’m going to walk you through setting up your IDE and making a mostly blank GWT project in Eclipse. We’ll link back to this in other tutorials for convenience. Continue reading ‘Setting up Eclipse for easy GWT development’
