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My uncle Paul Clarence sister is getting married and I was assign to design the list of itinerary for the wedding although I am not really a designer kind of guy I decided to take the shot since I have been working with interface for the longest time. I did suck on my design when I first launch my site 7 years ago using asp but with the help of GWT I think it did help me a lot on bringing back the confidence. Here is my design:

Today is my birthday and I am happy! :D

Google largest developer event is coming on May 19-20, 2010. Can't wait for this!

I am happy to announce that after one year of development we are launching our beta web application. Feel free to test drive it and try to register to experience our cool applications. http://socialme.s210.eatj.com

As we celebrate Christmas this coming midnight I can't help but reminisce the past five years of my life. Most of the time it was lonely and pressure due to the nature of my job. The past two years was really really tough as I was at the middle of completing my project. All I long for that time was to finish the job and go home and live happily ever after. I used to think that during the first six months I could easily handle all the possible problems that I would encounter but I was wrong. I almost died that time but somehow I manage to survive. It was the best experience that I ever had and very much happy to live the day to share my stories. Now, that it is over I am moving to the next challenge which is the internet era. Software as a service. Recently last December 3-4 we manage to reach the top four candidates on DevCon(Developers Connect) it was a whole new experience and I was pretty much ready from stage one to the finals. Although my ultimate goal is not yet achieve but s...

I have been a fan for this GWT library since I started working with ajax applications. I must say Sanjiv had made a great job improving its library to where it is now. Congratulation to Smart GWT Team. Check out the official announcement and the showcase demo: http://www.jroller.com/sjivan/entry/smart_gwt_2_0_released http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/

After I found out the release of GWT 2.0 I immediately made sure that my web application is compatible with it and work my way through its codes. I was very fascinated with how the speed tracer works and played with it during my first 3 hours. Days after I get feed up with all the new features I thought that was it. I have learned everything I need to know. Well not exactly. I decided to check out GWT 2.0 Campfire to learn more and I got what I need to know. Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ibM4oufdM I was happy with how easy it is to implement code splitting with this video to reduce the files to be downloaded. Then I wanted to know the exact details on the improvements of GWT 2.0. Fortunately, I saw a blogg from ongwt by RAY CROMWELL entitled GWT 2.0: So Good It's Ridiculous I was impress by how the GWT engineers do their job.

Wow! I am so stunned with the new updates of GWT 2.0 combine with the new speed tracer with Google Chrome. For every release version of GWT things gets really amazing with how you work with ajax application. The biggest change was from hosted mode to hosted browser is indeed the most important milestone GWT have gone through. Developing and debugging to major browsers have always been the most important aspect for an ajax developer and version 2.0 made that happen. Code splitting to boost up performance and scale up your project is something I would love to work my ass off to learn how this code works. It plays a vital role on keeping my users out of boredom. I am also looking forward to work often with draft compiling as I remember fixing minor tweaks consume a lot of my time. These are just some of the features that I am very much interested but still the new features GWT 2.0 is very useful and I would be very excited to learn the new features and take advantage of it. I personally r...

When I first look at the fileupload sample on GWT Showcase I expect everything was easy and simple to handle however, as I began to work deep on the widget I began to question a lot of things particularly the process of transferring the file being assigned to its destination. As I began to learn a lot I realize things were pretty much complicated as compared to what I expect. Searching for answers wasn't easy either fortunately Hasan's Weblog provide the most detailed and complete solution in helping me reach my goal. Check out the sample that I have work with: I know it's pretty gay that I used Taylor Swift as an example what choice do I have considering for the past three days you're staring at your codes trying to wonder what the heck is the problem? and suddenly the radio starts to play about cheer captain and bleacher thing with the chorus of "you belong with me...." The project looks pretty cool and I love it a lot especially when you realize that your...

Combining YouTube api and GWT is by far one of the best experience I ever had and at the same time one of the most difficult to work with. The opensource community has been working hard to create a patch for GWT developers in order to make it easier for us to work with Youtube stuff. Thanks to bst-player things have been very good to my project. Here's my sample project: I am very much satisfied with the results right now but still I would wait for the real YouTube api to be compatible with GWT.

As I was working on my project I decided to have a break and surf YouTube for interesting videos. Something that will enlighten my day up in a positive view. After hours of searching I finally got the right video. It's from TedTalk: Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes Here are the 8 Secret to Success: 1. Passion - Do it for love and the money will follow. 2. Work - It's all hard work nothing comes easy. 3. Good - Put your nose down in something and get damn good at it. There's no magic to practice, practice and practice. 4. Focus - Focusing yourself on one thing. 5. Push - Push yourself physically, mentally and gotta push, push, push. Push through shyness and self doubt. 6. Serve - Serve others something of value. 7. Ideas - Listen, observe, be curious, ask questions and make connections. 8. Persist - Persist through failure, persist to crap. C - Criticism, R - Rejection, A- Assholes, P- Pressure Watch the video here:

Months have past and yet i don't blog much as compared before it seems that social site have really explode big time allowing simple thoughts and expression to be shared with friends. I can tell it really affects the thoughts of my writing on blogs. One of the major reason why I haven't blog much is because I am preparing for the big event this coming November. I will try to update my blog as soon as the competition is over. Wish me luck people.

For two consecutive days now I have been using the Google fastflip to read news. I think it's really brilliant to have this kind of technology develop by Google. With all this awesome information I'm beginning to feel the pain of having information overload. I just hope my brain will adopt on this new kind environment. Another arising problem that I am face right now is how to keep my discipline in work. Two days after the launch of fasflip I notice that more and more of my time is being spent on reading interesting news rather than codes and solutions to problems. I still think that facebook is the number one perpetrator to my distraction. It's totally addicting.

I am beginning to learn how to run a small business and for the past two months I must admit the strength of a leader will be measured by time. Loneliness, boredom and financial problems are indeed killers for those who dare to run a startup. I am by far have yet to learn the values of focus and discipline but I am determined to adopt them as fast as possible. Yesterday evening I have learned that most of our online games are dead due to server maintenance at the same time I was bothered with how we should approach the competition of pricing. A lot of our competitors have slash their price to point of negative revenues even my cousin whats a promo to gain more customers. But my uncle would always tell me "NO" . It was kinda hard but I realize that we had an edge since most of the online servers are down and most of our competitors wants a break. I figure out a solution by simply asking most of our new customers what would it take for them to consider us? By anticipating what ...

For the past couple of weeks my brain is focus on the following list: Feeds, weather, widgets, connecting people and more....it's just too much. Everyday things just got more and more complicated considering that I'm still working on design. The database part is yet to be far from over. I just hope that when I started working fully with the database architecture I wont get bored and sleepy. I may be complaining on how things are being complicated but in realty I am very much excited to complete all the task. The cool stuff that I use are very useful in the long run. I need to keep on going to reach the finish line. More work on this project.

I just check the new features of SmartGWT 1.2 and it just blow my mind. From UI features to support to database and to almost everything about ajax its just stunning. Good luck to this guys and more power. Read the release: SmartGWT 1.2 release!

I could still remember the last time I work with maps using my old EIS project (GWT+GMaps) where address can be converted to longitude and latitude to view the location. It was kinda hard to understand the code. Google has made a major update for its maps with the use of Geocoding in order to easily view your search address. It was indeed a breeze especially on the code. It was cleaner and better than ever. Here's my main menu. As I type the location of the address and hit the search button I was totally amaze with the result. I tried a lot of address and it was almost 100% accurate. For now I am very much satisfied with the results. For the past 4 hours I have goggled for some simple code on how to use the geocoding but most of them are too complicated to understand. Here's my code: LatLng addressLatlng = LatLng.newInstance(13.8666667000, 121.0166667000); MapWidget map= new MapWidget(addressLatlng, 5); map.setSize("100%", "100%"); // Add some controls for...

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Working with RSS Reader has never been this good especially when your handling with HTML parser. It just makes life even better. I could clearly remember when I first installed my RSS Reader on a desktop. It was fun watching all the feeds update my reader and read all the latest news that I really like. Things gets really frustrating when it's my time to add my link. I always get's an error because I just add the link of the website and it's quite confusing because atom link or rss link is so new to me and I just don't have a clue on how to pick them up. All I know was I want to pick up new updates on news and blogs that I really like. One of my friend told me that you need an RSS Feeds or Atom link of that website. To find the feed was a total hell. Imagine from an idiot user perspective opening the site's source code and search the lines for the right feeds. That's just insane! Fortunately, on my blog blogger made it easy to look for your own atom link but sea...