Abdullah’s Blog

A couple of months back, I stumbled upon Google Web Toolkit where they introduce the concept of complex windowing applications development using ajax.
You don’t need to worry about how this drop down get fetched as much as putting the query to list them.

To put it simple, if you are planning to have a full window application such as accounting program, the first comes to your mind is C#, VB , Delphi, etc…

Now with GWT, you continue developing web application but with way extra mile provided from GWT to simulate all desktop applications.

The nice thing here is GwtPHP, which is using the same framework somehow to develop in PHP in the same way. an example of what you can do http://demo.qualityunit.com/pax4/merchants/login.php

Back home today after a quick visit to our sister company Batelco ( you could say our mother company if you will )…
We went there to talk and discuss where they invited us to present their experience and how could we benefit from it.

What amazed me, is simplicity is the most important!!…
We went there with a lot of expectation that they have Siebel and all of these IT sophisticated and advanced network systems.
But we shocked with… is simplicity is the key! Siebel is not in place till now. many of activities are done manually.

This for me, is a lesson of how can we convert idea and project to success! Don’t complicate yourself.

After I moved to my new house, My friend Younus gave me a nice gift, A DESKTOP computer with 22 Benq LCD monitor.

That machine is Giant!!, Windows7, 4 GB. so this took my to decide to use VirtualBox from Sun. It’s amazing. one of the most important points it gives you a tool to install it in the virtualized OS which gives you a chance to mix the two desktop ( for example your Windows7 desktop icons + Ubuntu desktop under VirtualBox ) you can do that by accessing one of the menus ( Install Guest Addons ) then try to choose the option of mixing the two desktop (called seemless mode)…..

I have an icon on the desktop for my SH, and you see two task bars one is down which is my Windows7 one. and the other is up which is Ubuntu.

the interesting part, it understands the virtualization hardware instruction in your CPU if you got either dual or quad cores, which leads you not to feel like you are running your OS under virtualization.