Guy Nirpaz Blog - Latest Comments

Re: GWT is dead!

Jarda — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:07:29 -0000

Could you elaborate on how did GWT prevent you from making design decisions?

Re: Can’t overcome same-origin-policy restriction for HTTP POST by XHR/JSONP

Guy Nirpaz — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:41:52 -0000

I agree, this is a another option.

Re: Can’t overcome same-origin-policy restriction for HTTP POST by XHR/JSONP

Itzik Yatom — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:13:56 -0000

I use CORS and a fallback code for browsers that don't support it yet (IE, Opera). Not sure if you can do it in your case.

Re: GWT is dead!

Ido — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:36:19 -0000

We are very concerned about the lake of a roadmap. However, we found gwt a great environmet for large team development. The project arch, integrating tools like mvn etc... Makes it really great to use.

I don't get why you need server runtime while developing tho, you can use the noserver run option, or use unit tests.

As fir compile time, 2.5 should be released very soon and it has some pretty massive performense enhancments.

Regardless, thanks for the post

Re: GWT is dead!

Guy Nirpaz — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:02:07 -0000

Hey Yuval - thanks for your comment.

Unfortunately at Totango we were not able to enjoy GWT when we grew the team. Worse, compile time and the need for server runtime while developing user interface is not the style of productivity we prefer.

Aren't you a bit concerned that Google never publishes a public GWT roadmap and that the last release of GWT is almost 6 months old?

Re: GWT is dead!

yuval heftman — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:05:02 -0000

It is absolutely alive for me :-)

Did you try JQuery for GWT implementations ? few are available.

http://code.google.com/p/gw...

I found it very easy to enjoy JQuery tricks (hide,show,...) inside GWT using this implementation.

JQuery is a very effective tool. Most developers will find it great for copy past ready code and put it fast into their own project, but what happen on a large scale/many developers project ? you are going to need much more than JQuery (mvc, require ...).

The benefits of GWT will only start to shine . Think about all those application developed for the last 10 years using flash (games and more). Can you see them replaces by HTML5 using plain javascript ?

http://code.google.com/p/pl...

Re: GWT is dead!

Guy Nirpaz — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:35:07 -0000

Hi Philip,

We're using jQuery in Bootstrap style for Javascript and HTML5/CSS based on Bootstrap fluid design.

Re: GWT is dead!

Guy Nirpaz — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:33:48 -0000

Hi Gal,

Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure that I agree with you. One of the benefits of using plain vanilla HTML5/JavaScript is our ability to make all design and architecture decisions which are suitable for what we need.

Further more, we're relying a lot on jQuery and we've copied many of the techniques of Bootstrap

Being burnt before with GWT, it will take us a while to trust a full-blown framework, and at this point we're looking for utilities instead

Re: GWT is dead!

Gal Dolber — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:25:53 -0000

I guess the title of the post should be "Why we stopped using GWT".
Yeah, maybe GWT will eventually be replaced by something BETTER... or maybe not, but moving to vanilla javascript is NOT a better path.

Re: GWT is dead!

philip andrew — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:12:12 -0000

So what to use, normal javascript, dart, coffeescript?

Re: Can’t overcome same-origin-policy restriction for HTTP POST by XHR/JSONP

eishay — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:26:53 -0000

Its also a sure cross browser way to send the cross domain cookie.

Re: Building Minimum Viable Product for B2B

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Re: Building Minimum Viable Product for B2B

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Re: The “Other Side” of Apple

Zahi Kapeluto — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:39:01 -0000

Why am I not surprised?
Android rules...

Re: Spring Roo Initial User Experience

Diegocastorina — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:09:36 -0000

I have also experienced the same feelings after few minutes of Roo, but after a couple more minutes things started getting complicated.
You can read about it in my blog if you want :)
http://a-developer-life.blo...

Re: Special Tip – working with graphic designers

Guy Nirpaz — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:50:53 -0000

On that we're totally in agreement. It's all about communication and being on the same page.

About the beta signup - please drop us a line at http://www.saaspulse.com and we'll happily create a user for you.

Cheers,
Guy

Re: Special Tip – working with graphic designers

Ivailo — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:31:01 -0000

As they say, "You can take the girl out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the girl". It's pretty much the same with design and one's state of mind when they have spent their most valuable years in the field :-) But as I was going to point, it's all about communication and people being on the same page. Rest is details. Will be looking forward to that invitation. Cheers.

Re: Special Tip – working with graphic designers

Guy Nirpaz — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:23:41 -0000

Hi. Thanks for your comment (sort of I guess ;-). From going to your website I do see why you see things differently.

My approach tries to address incremental design and concept changes while going through a product/market fit process. While the big top/down approach may work once you are more knowledgable about your product domain, this is simply not feasible when the amount of uncertainty is big and the resources are scarce.

I'll be happy to have you as part of our private beta, so you'll be able the results for yourself and comment further...

Re: Special Tip – working with graphic designers

Ivailo — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:24:25 -0000

While I see your reasons, I must say your approach is... messed. Was going to lay down my counterpoints, but would like to see where all this has lead you first, so will wait for an invitation. Always open for a discussion on the interface/service/product design topic, though.

Re: Minimum Viable Product in practice

Guy Nirpaz — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:05:36 -0000

Ori, thanks for your comment.

MVP is min/max effort. Maximum actionable(!) feedback for the minimum possible investment. We still need to realize that MVP is just a means to an end: the end goal is getting to repetitive sales model, which is buzz, product sells it self, or in other words, low customer acquisition costs with high returns.

I don't think, at least this is not the how I grasp MVP, trivial, not-interesting products.

Re: Minimum Viable Product in practice

Ori Lahav — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:15:15 -0000

"The Tipping Point"
When does your product hits the tipping point and you can say... "I've got it!!!"?
What criteria it need to meet so you can scale it?
When does the product sell itself? when it has a buzz? when does the data you bring about your product make it clear to your customers it's the right thing to get?

Some times this comes on the later versions (not MVP) but it is good to think about these and make the MVP decisions towards that.

Re: Status of private beta

James Watson — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:44:55 -0000

Wow i loved it,your writings are awsome,i will suggest you to get your blog listed to http:blogolb.net so that a huge community can easily approach you

Re: Status of private beta

Guy Nirpaz — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:42:29 -0000

Thanks Ori.

Re: Status of private beta

Ori — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:19:11 -0000

Great progress - I can't wait to see this integrated with our next product

Re: Spring Roo Initial User Experience

Guy Nirpaz — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:56:07 -0000

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your comment.
I think it's only reasonable to use maven as the underlying mechanism to build projects.

You should agree with me that Maven is not as elegant is it could be, at least not according to the Spring standards.

In any case, I'm going to keep working and reporting on my experiences with Roo and GWT.

Cheers,
Guy