GWT Advanced Table – new version
September 5, 2007
I published a new version of my GWT Advanced Table widget – a reusable GWT table component that supports data paging, sorting and filtering in AJAX fasion: I added row selection support that was missing in the first release. See the official Google Code project for more information and downloads: http://code.google.com/p/gwt-advanced-table/.
Measuring Semantic Similarity with Google
September 3, 2007
In the last year I am actively conducting research in computational linguistics and natural language processing. My PhD thesis concerns identification of cognates and false friends between Bulgarian and Russian. In short, false friends are pairs of words in two languages that sound similar but differ in their meaning. Identification of false friends is related
Automatically connect to VPN / PPPoE connection in Windows
August 25, 2007
My Internet provider forces me to use PPPoE to connect to Internet. It is unpleasant to manually start the connection when Windows restarts or the connection drop. This is even worse when I am not physically at the machine’s console – if the connection accidentally drop I can not establish Remote Desktop session. Windows does
Building GWT applications with “ant”
August 24, 2007
Today I needed to deploy an early preview version of our GWT based product to the testing server on the customer site. I didn’t mentioned early but our product is a large content repository for famous Bulgarian telecom. It took me 2 hours or maybe more to write and debug ant based build script but
GWT GroupBox panel widget
August 23, 2007
I needed for my GWT project a panel that supports showing a set of widgets in a group (GroupBox panle). I needed the exact functionality like the HTML fieldset/legend tags: I didn’t found any ready-to-use widget so I implemented one myself. Here is the source code: It was really easy to extend the flow panel
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) – Advanced Table with Paging, Sorting and Filtering
August 22, 2007
I work on a meidum sized Java project and we use GWT (Google Web Toolkit), Hibernate and Oracle. I am a technical architect for the project and I manage small team of developers in the same time. GWT is interesting technology for creating dynamic AJAX applications. It is like Swing: you write Java code, use
Svetlin Nakov – My First Blog Post
My name is Svetlin Nakov. I am software engineer, consultant, trainer, book writer and enterpreneur from Sofia, Bulgaria. My primary concern is software engineering and training. I have very rich experience in different technical and management positions, starting from Basic and Pascal developer on Apple II (in 1991), passing through Delphi, C, C++, Java, C#,