How to speed up development with GWT Hosted Mode

We are working in a big system to control assets, and we are having problems with the hosted mode in Linux, its too slow.
What we are doing and enplaning on this article how to do it, is speed up compilation of the module and run the application the Firefox 3.

This is out module file

<pre>
<pre><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<module>
	<inherits name="com.extjs.gxt.ui.GXT"/>

	 <set-property name="user.agent" value="gecko1_8" />

	<stylesheet src="Index.css"/>
	<entry-point class="br.srv.silt.client.Index"/>
	<extend-property name="locale" values="pt_BR"/>
</module>

Workshop about Domain Driven Design at Caelum

This week I had the pleasure of knowing Philip Calçado consultant of ThoughtWorks. In the workshop of Caelum, Philip said about the main concerns of DDD. The workshop was amazing, very dynamic, with great content. We did several lessons in group of five people, using cards like CRC cards to create a Ubiquitous Language for us to communicate with the customer, in this case the customer was Philip. I work with DDD for 5 months (I guess :p) and sense that DDD is more than to use Design Patterns.

DDD is a way of communication between customers and developers. What matters is the communication without noises and your code reflect it. I’m sure that this workshop were very important for everyone who was there.

For those that want to developer software with quality and flexibility I recommend to read about DDD and the most important, before of you develop, undestand all concerns about DDD e keep in mind, DDD isn’t just Design Patterns (Service, Repository, etc), DDD is about communication.

Here are some references for those interested:

Fragmental.tw – Philip’s blog – Blog about development and Philip’s experiences

Domain Driven Design Quickly – http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly - That’s a mini book about DDD, but this book focus most Design Patterns.

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software – The creator of term DDD is the author of this book. Indispensable reading

Congratulations to Philip and Caelum for the great workshop.

Make Gnome look like MacOs Leopard

If you like mac look you will like this tip, there is a very cool dock called cairo-dock, she comes with a mac theme but doesn’t look like Leopard so. I changed this theme to look like Leopard and he looks like this:

1) Download Cairo and Plugin from here:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8724

2) To download the cairo dock theme:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/MacOSX+Leopard+Cairo-Dock+Theme?content=89410

3) Extract to:~/.cairo-dock/themes/ 

4) Restart cairo-dock

Gwt + GXT

Right now we are working with GXT and GWT in the Asset Control System. GXT seens at this point to be a great way to create new systems, the UI is incredible + you dont need to right in HTML or JavaScript.