Really cool application building blocks to play with
17 Apr 2009 Charles Choi
There's been a spate of really cool and interesting development tools to build web applications that have popped up over the past two years.
Things that I've been playing with, in no particular order:
- Google App Engine (GAE)
- Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
- Android SDK
- iPhone SDK
- Air/Flex3
- Amazon S3/EC2
Grokking all of this into a coherent whole is part of the fun. As a quick and dirty exercise, I wrote a GWT QuickTime component and marveled at how much it worked cross-browser. Here's a link to it (warning this link is fragile since it's a prototype) with some additional components added to it.
When I get more up to speed with GWT conventions I'm thinking of open sourcing the GWT QuickTime component.