Smart GWT EE 2.3 released
Go get it: Evaluation Download Showcase If you already have a 2.x license, you’ll get an email with download links by the end of the day. The LGPL version will be available within a few days. Note, we...
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If you’ve purchased a license, you can now download licensed nightly builds. Just log in to SmartClient.com, then go here to download: http://www.smartclient.com/builds If you also have support, you...
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HTML5 Charts with mobile support
A new HTML5-based charting engine is now available as part of the Analytics module – download the Smart GWT or SmartClient Evaluation to try it out. This charting engine is based on the Drawing module...
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Smart GWT QuickStart Guide
Now available: the Smart GWT QuickStart Guide. This is the first piece of documentation to read when learning about Smart GWT. It is structured as a set of brief introductions to the major features of...
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Just landed: User-defined data highlighting
Just landed in nightly builds for both SmartClient and Smart GWT: user-defined data highlighting. A very common requirement in enterprise applications is highlighting important or unusual data values,...
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Smart GWT 2.4 & SmartClient 8.0 final release
To kick off the New Year, Smart GWT 2.4 and SmartClient 8.0 final have been released! Download the new releases here. This list of new features is relative to Smart GWT 2.3 and the SmartClient 8.0 beta...
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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...
View ArticleSecurity Alert: Please Change Your SmartClient.com Password
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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