Bristol – Google Technology User Group
Welcome to the website of the official Bristol Technology User group.
The Bristol GTUG is a non-profit developers group for anyone interested in or working with any of the Google Technologies.
The objective is to enable developers to share information, knowledge and experience with others both online and through regular meet-ups in the Bristol area.
If you have anything you would like to contribute be it information, best –practices, demonstrations of projects or have questions about any of the Google technologies please join us.
Google I/O is on at the moment so expect lots of announcements.
The most interesting I have come across so far is new integration between GWT and Spring. This sound promising as these are two of my preferred technologies: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmware-google.html
You can keep up with videos from Google I/O here:
http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers
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Over the past couple of weeks I have been looking at the feasibility of creating mobile widgets using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Mobile widgets package up open web technology, specifically HTML, CSS, JavaScript files in such a way that they can be deployed as applications on mobile phones. In a similar way the same files could be packaged to deploy as Opera widgets or Adobe Air applications. The productivity gain of writing code once like this and being able to execute it on so many platforms is very appealing especially for …
I attended the OpenMIC BarCamp event in Bath last week and was interested to learn about mobile widgets. Mobile widgets are basically mobile apps build with web technologies. They come in different flavours but all are a collection of JavaScript, CSS and image files together with an HTML file. These files are then packaged in a zip file with an XML descriptor (a bit like a war) and can be deployed to a mobile phone. I just deployed my by sending the file via Bluetooth. The application then can be …
I was going to write an article about Google Wave, what it is, whether it is something to get excited about or not etc. etc. However I would only be writing something that will have been written by others all over the web. If anyone has found some great “What it is and why to get excited” type articles please send me a link.
Google Wave has reminded me of a product I got very excited about before, a product which now is part of MS Office but one that …
In this article I try to give a brief tutorial of how to use the
GXT (Ext-GWT) MVC. Using GWT 1.7 and GXT 2.0.1.
Having worked out what was going on in GXT MVC I was able to put
together a simple sample app of my own. The example I choose was an app
to to retrieve and display the current stock price of Google. To keep things simple the backend is based on an example from the GreatWebGuy website.
The diagram below shows the key components used in the GXT MVC
framework and how they …
