GWT 2.1 milestone 1 with data presentation widgets

GWT 2.1 milestone 1 is available and it has business presentation widgets! More details here. I still use smartGWT for complicated widgets but now this may change.

Java is dead

I just came back from the 30st Athens OpenCoffee event. One more interesting event but the best part for me was when Brian Teeman of Joomla was asked by one of the attendants if Joomla was going to support other databases or other languages like e.g. Java. His answer was immediate: "Java, NO. Java is dead. And if it isn't dead, then it should be".

MyNetworkFolders is here

Panagiotis says everything here. More on the service here.

Weekly links for 25 - 31/01/2010

Schneier on Security: Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees

Ελεύθερο Λογισμικό / Λογισμικό ανοιχτού κώδικα - Monomaxos Greek Linux
Greek Linux distribution (in Greek)

Weekly links for 18 - 24/01/2010

Casper - live aircraft tracking (via @javapapo)
Live mashup with the air traffic over Schipol airport

It is definitely one of the best Dilbert strips ever
Sarcasm on cloud computing and outsourcing

Weekly links for 14-20/12/2009

Woot : What Was Popular Mechanics Thinking?
The comments are very funny

Presentation Summary “High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook” « Idle Process
More than 3.9 trillion feed actions per day ??????!!!!!!???????

28 Rich Data Visualization Tools - InsideRIA
It seams that data visualization is no more a problem

Όσο ζω, μαθαίνω
Greasemonkey script to unveil the full urls of shortened urls in twitter and identi.ca

SmartGWT 2.0 Released - Sanjiv Jivan's Blog
Great tool if you want to make web apps that look like native

Weekly links for 7-13/12/09

How to Make Developer Certifications That Matter | The Single Founder