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When you create a new GWT project from sample code, you will get a widget with ajax capability, as GWT is meant to do javascript programming in Java language, what you see from this sample project are all Java code, if you want to understand this in a manner of client and server separation, there will be some miles to cover to get there. Read the rest of this entry »

treeTable is a very simple jQuery plugin that renders tabular data in a tree format, but it(latest version 2.3 at the time of writing) has a few bugs one of it is its expand and collapse function are not recursive as they were claimed. Read the rest of this entry »

When we first started developing widgets using GWT Google web toolkit, we always set out from some kind of build tool, in my case I am using Google web development plugin for Eclipse, you can choose ‘Generate GWT project sample code’, that is fine until one day I would like to add more widgets to this project, or port widgets between different projects, different languages like php and asp.net. Read the rest of this entry »

I remember being struggling between these two concepts in my early days of jQuery programming, like trying to get value from a jQuery object or call val() on a Dom object, it is not a big issue though, people can get away with that one way or other, but a good understanding will not only help us make fewer mistakes but also move us into the advanced areas of jQuery programming. Read the rest of this entry »

As WordPress loads the jQuery library in no conflict mode, $() short cut is no longer supported in javascript in WordPress, this breaks most of the open source jquery add-ons or javascript code we have written before. Read the rest of this entry »