Archive for October, 2010

GWT relevant snippets for IntelliJ Idea editor

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I created a list of snippets that I loaded into my IntelliJ editor, which I find useful when working with Google Webtoolkit (GWT). So far, it’s a very short list. Snippet 1: Live template to bootstrap a class to use UI binder logic. Very useful when converting existing (pre gwt 2.0) Java classes to UI […]

Successful Approach to User Experience

Friday, October 1st, 2010 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I have a reading proposal for you: Marc Hedlund’s “Why Wesabe Lost to Mint“. Wesabe and Mint were competing to be the best free web-based personal financial management services. In retrospect, he has some insightful notes on how important end user experience turned out to be: […] Mint focused on making the user do almost […]