Aside from being drop-dead gorgious, Monica Bellucci is also erudite, gracious and wise. I went to take my nephew last week to see "Shoot 'Em Up", a fast-paced action thriller with Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti. There's one quote in the movie that stuck out in my mind, the whole week while I was working with sample projects from the Google Web Toolkit book by Prabhakar Chaganti. Monica Bellucci says, "Eggs have no business dancing with stones."
Now, I've worked through the NetBeans GWT Quickstart, and have read half the book. The book is awesome, but it is riddled with code typos that have cost me hours and hours of frustration, which is unfortunate but I guess we all go through this sometimes. NetBeans can't really help with these kinds of mistakes. One thing that NetBeans does really well, is that it makes things a lot easier and quicker for developers. For developers. And sometimes, I tell myself, that ain't me.
However... I been sticking with it and only later found out that the download link at the top of the NetBeans GWT Quickstart brings you to a plugin that lets you install not only the sample project from that tutorial, but 5 or 6 more samples which are modelled after the ones in the book! This is truly awesome because where before I couldn't figure out why my project wouldn't run, now I can just compare what I had with the samples and work out where the problem lies. And the samples let you do some pretty neat stuff:
DYNAMIC LISTS:
SORTABLE TABLES:
Doing it this way doesn't really make me feel like a developer, but then I guess that don't really matter. Because despite how I felt when Monica Bellucci was enfirring that I was an egg, with the NetBeans samples and some inspiration from Jimmy Thomas, I feel like I'm on the right path again this week.
Now, I've worked through the NetBeans GWT Quickstart, and have read half the book. The book is awesome, but it is riddled with code typos that have cost me hours and hours of frustration, which is unfortunate but I guess we all go through this sometimes. NetBeans can't really help with these kinds of mistakes. One thing that NetBeans does really well, is that it makes things a lot easier and quicker for developers. For developers. And sometimes, I tell myself, that ain't me.
However... I been sticking with it and only later found out that the download link at the top of the NetBeans GWT Quickstart brings you to a plugin that lets you install not only the sample project from that tutorial, but 5 or 6 more samples which are modelled after the ones in the book! This is truly awesome because where before I couldn't figure out why my project wouldn't run, now I can just compare what I had with the samples and work out where the problem lies. And the samples let you do some pretty neat stuff:
DYNAMIC LISTS:
SORTABLE TABLES:
Doing it this way doesn't really make me feel like a developer, but then I guess that don't really matter. Because despite how I felt when Monica Bellucci was enfirring that I was an egg, with the NetBeans samples and some inspiration from Jimmy Thomas, I feel like I'm on the right path again this week.
