Mvp4g is a great library to manage your large GWT application structure. Especially when using MVP where your Presenters talk to each other using events. Without Mvp4g you can follow plain vanilla GWT but you will need to create and manage a set of Handlers and Events to communicate those presenters. And on top of that, you’ll need to manage the registry and instantiation of those presenter instances.

In an application we recently built we used Mvp4g. We had this special requirement that the screen layout was to be built dynamically. That meant we would need to create presenters on the fly, but not only that, there might be multiple instances of a presenter at any given time – e.g. one screen would have two chart components with different supporting data. The presenter responsibility was the same for both, display a bar chart from the under laying data (a simple multi-column query).

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A year ago I began my consulting career with Summa as an Associate Technical Consultant. It was a dramatic adjustment from my previous job as a Software Engineer at a large corporation. After talking with a lot of my coworkers I found that the majority had the same thoughts that I did when I made the switch. The thoughts of uncertainty in what to expect from a new job, piled on top of a completely new way of doing things.

So I have been consulting for a year now, a short time in comparison to an entire career. Even so, I feel as if within this short period of time I can create a “what to expect” list. I hope that you can get some insight from my experience so that if you choose to make the same transition you know what to expect. Enjoy!

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The Maven dependency:tree is a helpful plugin that shows where all those jars are coming from in our Maven projects. The default output is text, and sometimes we want something more visual.
Here are two simple and easy ways to get a more visual dependency tree using the standard plugin with GraphML output and also the M2Eclipe plugin.

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From personal experience, I’d like to make the case that typing skills can help improve development productivity. When I took a typing class on 7^th grade, little did I know how much I would benefit from such skill throughout high school, college and work. On an average day I find myself typing about 50% of my day. Whether I am writing code, a design document or typing e-mails, I do a lot of typing. The biggest productivity gain of knowing to type does not come from typing speed, it comes from being able to type without actually looking at the keyboard. If you are able to do that, you can be looking at the screen instead of the keyboard and that allows you to make corrections as you type, thus minimizing review time and the number of corrections. In this blog post I will go over some techniques for improving your typing skills.

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