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Category: Technology

December 15, 2022

Optimizing Web Applications vs Web Sites

Most of the time, when you read advice about optimizing your web properties, the advice is provided without making a distinction between building a web site vs building a web application. This assumes that the approach to optimizing a basic web site – for example, a site showing off an artist’s portfolio – is basically the same as that for...

SmartClient/Industry/performance/Technology/UI

December 8, 2022

Fallacies of React: Why so many React projects fail

If you use React, it’s easy to hire experienced developers, and you can use the best components available from a variety of sources, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, this is not at all true, for two main reasons: To be clear: React is a solid technology, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. The problem comes from misunderstanding the nature of React....

SmartClient/Industry/performance/Technology/Tools/UI

November 21, 2022

Why Everything Is CRUD

Many web frameworks have very advanced support for the so-called “CRUD” operations, that is, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, also known in SQL as Insert, Select, Update and Delete. Often, when developers see the CRUD features in these frameworks – like data grids that know how to perform CRUD operations, as in SmartClient – they react by saying: well, that’s great...

performance/Choice/Industry/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology/Tools

August 26, 2022

Web Application Optimization: Why Most Advice Is Wrong

Most of the advice you run into regarding web application optimization is not only wrong, it’s what I call catastrophically wrong, meaning that it: That’s a big claim, and I will back it up. Before we begin, we need a clear definition of performance for a web application. Only with a good definition of performance in hand can we begin to discuss web application optimization, what’s wrong with so...

Choice/performance/SmartClient/Technology/Tools

May 26, 2022

Are lightweight components really what you need?

Business applications improve productivity. Improving productivity is why applications exist and why we are all employed to provide them. However, as developers, we sometimes get excited about new technologies and the benefits they claim to have. For example, a basic grid component with a very small amount of source code sounds very appealing. However, this simplicity is the wrong thing to...

Choice/HTML5/Industry/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology

January 3, 2022

The Best Just got Better! V13.0 is here

We are proud and pleased to announce that V13.0 of SmartClient and SmartGWT is officially here, with tons of fantastic new features. We’re sure you’ll agree it was worth the wait. Some of the great features we have added to V13.0 are: OpenAPI Support Auto-hiding, Minimalist Scrollbars CSS Editors Client-side Authentication & Roles Simulator for Prototyping Custom Event Widgets for...

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November 19, 2021

More Amazing features for the upcoming V13.0 Release

In the last few months, we’ve been busy adding a whole new set of amazing features that will be available in the next release of SmartClient and SmartGWT. We have already announced some fantastic additions to the framework in our previous posts (Part 1 / Part 2 ), and now there’s even more to extend the power and flexibility of SmartClient and SmartGWT! This post shares just another taste...

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October 28, 2020

Part 2: SQLDataSource FTW

Power & Flexibility I hear a lot that I should use something like JPAQL for what it’s good at, and then back away to SQL when I have something a little more complex. I think I showed last time that SQLDataSource is equally capable (if not more so) of generating simple SQL statements. The difference with SQLDataSource is, I can...

Customer Success/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology

October 7, 2020

Part 1: SQLDataSource FTW

About 10 years ago, I was working for a Fortune 500 company whose primary line-of-business application was built using a homegrown framework that was loosely based on a Java Model 2 / MVC type of architecture. I’d been asked to come up with a way to migrate away from that platform in phases and was looking at alternatives. We liked...

Customer Success/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology

July 9, 2020

Amazing new Features for V13.0 (Part 2)

Following on from our last feature post for V13.0, welcome to our second installment of even more fantastic capabilities that will be available in the next release of SmartClient and SmartGWT. Persistent Hovers Sometimes, a hover is so useful you want it to stick around! Now, you can just use the focusHoverKey setting to provide a keyboard shortcut for a...

Feature/Release/Release 13/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology

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Category: Technology

Optimizing Web Applications vs Web Sites

Fallacies of React: Why so many React projects fail

Why Everything Is CRUD

Web Application Optimization: Why Most Advice Is Wrong

Are lightweight components really what you need?

The Best Just got Better! V13.0 is here

More Amazing features for the upcoming V13.0 Release

Part 2: SQLDataSource FTW

Part 1: SQLDataSource FTW

Amazing new Features for V13.0 (Part 2)

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Category: Technology

Optimizing Web Applications vs Web Sites

Fallacies of React: Why so many React projects fail

Why Everything Is CRUD

Web Application Optimization: Why Most Advice Is Wrong

Are lightweight components really what you need?

The Best Just got Better! V13.0 is here

More Amazing features for the upcoming V13.0 Release

Part 2: SQLDataSource FTW

Part 1: SQLDataSource FTW

Amazing new Features for V13.0 (Part 2)

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