Category: Tools

November 23, 2016

New Release Preview (Part III)

This is the third post about our upcoming release: SmartClient 11.1 | Smart GWT 6.1. Previous posts can be seen here: Part I – Histogram chart, Selenium image load check, Grid support for auto-sizing to wrapped titles Part II – Scrolling charts, Visual builder DataSource Validators, Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V Here are a few more 11.1 | 6.1 features: Audio Playback...

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November 16, 2016

Our Experience with DevOps

These days, there are numerous conferences, news articles, training courses and discussions going on around DevOps. As I am sure you know, DevOps breaks down barriers between Development, Operations and QA, improving communication & collaboration, all with the goal of releasing higher quality products more frequently. How we got started We founded Isomorphic in 1998. Right from the start –...

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October 28, 2016

Next Release Preview (Part II)

A few weeks ago, we talked about a few features in the upcoming release, SmartClient 11.1 | Smart GWT 6.1. Here are a few more: For When There’s Just Too Much Data … Meet the Scrolling Chart Sometimes when you try to fit it all on one page, it just becomes unreadable. Labels have to be rotated by 90 degrees...

Categories Charts/dashboard/Feature/Release/Tools/UI

October 13, 2016

Java Ecosystem Insights, Free Cloud Expo Pass … and One More Thing

Exec Insights on the State of the Java Ecosystem Tom Smith from DZone recently interviewed Isomorphic CTO, Charles Kendrick, and several other execs, to get insights into the state of the Java ecosystem. Tom’s article was published in Dzone’s Guide to Modern Java. A few of the highlights were: The open source community is driving more innovation than Oracle Java...

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October 7, 2016

Coming Soon: SmartClient 11.1 | Smart GWT 6.1

It’s time to start talking about our next release, SmartClient 11.1 | Smart GWT 6.1. It is gonna be a good one! Here are just a few of the features: #1: Selenium: Easy way to check if images/icons load successfully You can now use “/imageLoaded” as a manually added suffix for locators that target Img components or other components that...

Categories Charts/dashboard/Feature/Release/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Tools/UI

July 19, 2016

DevOps Patterns and Anti-patterns: How to do the Right Thing in the Real World.

In DevOps, what patterns lead to success? What are the anti-patterns that should be avoided? Charles Kendrick – CTO here at Isomorphic Software – recently participated in a DevOps power panel at the Cloud Expo in New York. The session was very well attended and incredibly well received. We thought we would share a few of the questions posed to...

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July 8, 2016

Have you heard of Adaptive Filtering?

Adaptive filtering helps make your applications run lightening fast, not only on the desktop, but also on tablets and smartphones. How does it do this? It automatically switches to client-side filtering when the dataset becomes small enough. In doing so, it eliminates up to 90% of the most costly types of server contact (searching through large datasets), dramatically improving responsiveness and scalability. Want to...

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May 19, 2016

4 More Features that Sneaked into 11 |6

A few more features that we haven’t told you about made it into SmartClient 11 | Smart GWT 6, and they are actually pretty awesome … even if we do say so ourselves! 🙂 #1 Formula Fields You can now declare that a form field should calculate it’s value automatically based on values in surrounding fields or other surrounding components. ...

Categories Feature/HTML5/Release/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Tools/UI

February 23, 2016

Even More SmartClient 11 | Smart GWT 6 Features

We blogged a few weeks ago (click here) about the first batch of features in SmartClient 11 | Smart GWT 6. Below are a bunch more. Enjoy! Beautiful input controls First of all, we’ve overhauled the appearance of our form controls to match current design trends and take advantage of CSS3 features like box shadows and transitions, that are now...

Categories Canvas/dashboard/Feature/HTML5/Release/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Tools/UI

January 4, 2016

Three Problems with Agile

The essence of Agile is to ramp up communication between team members to an extreme degree. The idea behind this is to minimize the functionality gaps, design misses and rework so often encountered in waterfall development processes, with an end goal of maximizing the output of usable software. Ramping up communication, however, has its own set of challenges. For starters,...

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