After a weekend of Guinness, rebel songs, and Kildare football banter, I have finally got around to writing last weeks development diary. During the week the first draft of the design document for the Flax Engine was finished, a stage in the development Carl and myself are quite happy to have completed. Continue reading ‘Flax HTML5 Game Engine Development Diary Part 3′
Well for those of you who read the first post about benchmarking GWT vs JavaScript Part 1 on Linux, Mac, iPhone and a variety of browsers, here is the continuation of that article tested on Windows XP, Android OS, Symbian OS and even a build of Chromium OS. For those of you who didn’t you may wish to read this first Google Web Toolkit JavaScript Vs hand Crafted JavaScript benchmark Part 1
Continue reading ‘Google Web Toolkit JavaScript Vs hand Crafted JavaScript benchmark: Part 2′
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’
Is JavaScript Generated by Google Web ToolKit faster or slower than hand crafted Javascript?
In short there is no difference, but there is more to the story than that. Below are my findings, and I present them to you in a non-biased fashion and with no guarantee. This benchmark is un-comprehensive and so you will have to forgive me for possible errors. The benchmark has been run on Ubuntu 10.04 and Mac OS X 10.6 using FireFox, Chrome and Safari. It was also tested on the iPhone in Safari the Macintosh browser. (Part Two of the article is here Google Web Toolkit JavaScript Vs hand Crafted JavaScript benchmark Part 2) Continue reading ‘Google Web Toolkit JavaScript Vs hand Crafted JavaScript benchmark’
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’
