The power of GWT

Today I'm quite happy to announce that you can try out the latest demo of the QAFE (http://www.qafe.com).

QAFE is a product that I've been working on for at least 3 years and the choice of technology was definitely a good one: Google WebToolkit.

Mainly because of this technology such a solution was possible. If you want to see a demo, just go to http://demo.qafe.com

Thanks GWT team for GWT!

Google Chrome Extensions

Oke, I've been using the Chrome for a while now (and of course using the devchannel builds). The thing is that I'm getting more and more familiar with and used to the Extension.

In Google Chrome you can add extension (the current stable version also supports that).

The ones I like so far are

- Google Translate (really cool live translations without messing up the layout!)

- Chromed Bird (nice and fast extension for twitter!

- goo.gl URL Shortner (service from google to shorten large URL's, compare it with bit.ly)

- Google Mail Checker (nice one!)

- Google Similar Pages (great functionality, still in beta though!)

- Google PageRank (very interesting!)

- Drop.IO (a very cool online service for easily sharing files..very promising)

My advice....use extensions...they're fast, cool and very useful!

Wave to Google Headquarters

As you know, for Google Streetview, Google is making pictures. This one is really funny!
Google Streetview in front of Google Headquarters. Apparently they were expecting you :) http://goo.gl/YkzL

Google does it again

Check out this article http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/01/follow-changes-to-any-website.html

It's really cool! Each page can provide an RSS feed. If it doesn't Google takes care of this and checks page changes!

Thank you Google! (this long awaited feature is finally there!)

Download Youtube Movies in Chrome with a Bookmark!

Hi,

here is a piece of code which allows you to download any youtube movie to MP4 format (so you can put it on your ipod/ipod touch or iphones).

What to do ?

- Create a bookmark in Chrome
- Call it "Youtubue Download to MP4"
- The location is the following (just copy and paste it)

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + yt.getConfig("SWF_ARGS")['video_id'] + "&fmt=18" + "&sk=" + yt.getConfig("SWF_ARGS")['sk'] + '&t=' + yt.getConfig("SWF_ARGS")['t'];

The next time you go to YouTube and you find a movie you want to download, just go to that page and click on this bookmark. The download will automatically start...

Cool stuff right ?!

Seems to work with every browser (tested it with Chrome, FireFox and IE6(!!))

Enterprise on Mobile with GWT

Today i found this article
http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2009/10/enterprise-apps-in-your-pocket.html

It's really cool to see how web-kit provides you possibility that used to be a lot of javascript. For example, Safari (and Chrome) are built on top of the WebKit engine. Check what is possible from a visual perspective on these browsers.

http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/InternetWeb/Conceptual/SafariVisualEffectsProgGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

Gradients, masking, reflection, all are possible with CSS.

Together with the power of GWT (mobile) enterprise applications can become very interesting.

It''s been a while!

Hi,

I'm back to blog. Lately I've been very busy with QAFE. We redesigned the qafe site. Check it out on http://www.qafe.com

Let us know what you think of it.

Yesterday I had a conference call with a Google GWT Advocate. This was really cool. It gives you lots of information and energy. I am very happy that 3 years ago I decided that we were going to use GWT (Google Webtoolkit) for QAFE.

So I'll be posting soon on more (like Google Wave, yes I have an account). If you want to follow me, Twitter.com/rjankie is another possibility.