I very much enjoy Code Complete by Steve McConnell. I have not read the whole thing and read it by jumping around. I recently came across a column note he made referencing a talk from 1972.

That's nearly 40 years ago. Nevertheless, the points are relevant both from the perspective of understanding history, but also that the talk could be contemporary.

Either google The Humble Programmer or try this link.

As an updated post to the last one, this is a better starting point: viewvc on komacke, rev 27 (Updated on 2010-04-01, no joke.)

It uses gwt-dispatch 1.1.0 that offers SecureDispatch. The project integrates Google Accounts login.

It uses gwt-presenter. The combination of gwt-dispatch 1.0 and gwt-presenter owes thanks to Chris Lowe

Additionally JPA/warp-persist is used with a DAO framework to persist an account object that holds notebook-account-specific information.

It uses UiBinder. It includes localization although not yet for UiBinder. I've done that on another project and it's a little tricky. I'll add it here soon.

If you might benefit from a hello-world starting point with all those technologies, please feel free to grab a copy from the URL above.

BTW, if you are worried about license, I hereby declare the described code distributed under the Apache 2.0 License .

As I've pulled together my new notebook project (using GWT and AppEngine by Google), reached a point that I wish I'd had available when starting this and other projects. I've got a hello-world implementation of gwt-dispatch, gwt-presenter, Google Accounts login, a simple RPC, a login page, and a landing page.

As I think about it I realize I broke my persistence implementation although persistence code is in there. I'll have to update this entry after fixing persistence.

In any case, if you might benefit from a hello-world starting point with all those technologies, please feel free to grab a copy of http://www.komacke.com/svn/trunk/Notebook/?p=17