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SmartGWT 2.5 / SmartClient 8.1 Released
Smart GWT 2.5 and SmartClient 8.1 have been released! Download the new releases here. New Chart Modes: Pie, Doughnut, Bar (with Power + Analytics) The FacetChart has picked up several new modes that...
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On or around April 26th, Isomorphic’s public-facing web servers were compromised by a well-known government-backed APT (Advanced Persistent Threat – basically a hacking group). If you are short on...
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Almost all advice about web application optimization is catastrophically 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: leads you to waste time on optimizations that have...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The future of Enterprise UI is AI
With the advent of AI, two things are going to happen in enterprise UI: AI assistants will drive UIs on your behalf, based on natural language descriptions of what you want. AIs will create new UIs...
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Flexible UI Framework for Greater Performance
There is a kind of “received wisdom” in the industry that highly configurable applications are necessarily slower, because they have to retrieve the configuration information from some database, and...
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The insanity of SSR (Server-Side Rendering) for Enterprise apps
Recently, we talked to a prospect who was building an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) front-end, and found out that they were doing it in an SSR framework. This is insane. Truly and completely nuts....
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Supply chain attacks, React, and the death of “mix & match” development
Recently, a popular open source project called polyfill.js was taken over by a bad actor, who injected malicious code into the project. 100s of thousands of sites with CI (Continuous Integration)...
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