Viraj's Weblog

It's been almost a year since I released a version of Movie Vote. In that time I had been rewriting the UI in Java with Google Web Toolkit off and on. That started out as an experiment because I hated Javascript so much. I liked GWT so much I went full-on with it. Now the server side of my app is mostly JSON interfaces, and the UI is AJAXy without any Javascript written by me. I was glad to 'svn rm' the horrible Javascript I had in my previous versions. With GWT and Java, type checking is done before I deploy and I no longer have to worry about variable misspellings and other stupidness when writing JS.

Anyway, just in time for the holidays, I give you Movie Vote v1.5.

In general, web programming is really not my thing. No matter what language I'm writing a UI in, I'm just not a UI developer. I can guess as to what I think is a cool interface but this is better left to UI designers. I now have a screenshot on the project page. That minimal-looking interface involved a lot of code!