Hi Frank and Trevis, you are both correct, and I guess I should apologise to some extent, I was just throwing the question out there to see what kind of a response I got. I am happy to drop this thread now and concentrate on specific GWT questions.
I have been burnt several times over the last six months, both with commercial organisations and individuals who have promised the world and then simply not delivered. Hence I am very wary of getting involved with anyone new. Frank, I used to be a programmer, but have moved away from it over the years, and have been forced back into it, due to being unable to find anyone else who can do a good enough job for me. I dont want to be doing the programming, I am an ideas man, so if you have any suggestions as to how i can find "competent developers" without having to pay them for 2 months work before finding out how good they really are, then I am all ears!! Apologies to anyone who has taken any kind of offence to my asking this question on here! Thanks for all your responses though! :D J On Sep 11, 4:33 pm, Trevis <trevistho...@gmail.com> wrote: > imho, the purposes of forums like this isnt to find someone who will > help you off line but to share questions that others may have so that > they can be answered in on central repository. Further the questions > and responses could possibly guide future development and > documentation. > > To that end i think that questions in this specific forum should be > GWT specific not development in general. > > That my opinion anyway. > Trevis > > On Sep 11, 10:14 am,JohnVDenley<johnvden...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Ok Mars, I wasnt really expecting a technical response on this > > particular problem yet, this post was designed to see if anyone was > > willing to allow me to send questions to them directly rather than > > having to wait for responses on here. > > > I dont take offence with your reply, although I dont think your > > opinions are correct! > > > 1. I'd certainly love for someone to write the app for me, but im > > equally happy to realise that id never get anyone to do that for > > nothing! We actually did employ an indian development company to do > > this for us, but they didnt do anywhere near an acceptable job for us > > and that burnt most of our startup costs. I have now had to take on > > the job myself, and so far I feel Ive been doing a pretty good job, we > > are hoping to start selling V3 of the product next week! > > > 2. I do try to read the documentation, I usually dont post onto this > > forum until Ive completely run out of ideas having read everything I > > can find out about the specific issue im trying to solve.Usually the > > problem is that most of the documentation and suggestions from people > > like youself assume a certain level of understanding of all the > > technologies involved, and often there are terms used, which have no > > meaning to me, and I then have to go and investigate those terms > > before i can understand the issue im reading about, often to only find > > that half the stuff im looking into is not relevant to what im > > actually trying to do. > > > On this particular issue I am quite happily transferring data to and > > from the datastore (Google App Engine - which i did mention above). Im > > not actually 100% certain what technology terms to use to describe how > > im doing that bit now, I think its RPC, but i cant be sure. I took the > > code for the stockwatcher example and modified that to do what im > > doing, and some of the code from the "sticky" application (I think). > > > I have managed to work around the above problem through my own > > "ingenuity" by breaking the date down for each appointment on the > > server side into month/day/hour/minute and then passing this as a > > string[][] array back to the client, where i reconstitute the date > > back into a date object and then apply the localisation manually. I am > > certain that this is a horrible way to achieve the result, but it > > works OK, so for now Im going to live with it. > > > I now have a new problem (sending an HTTP request to a 3rd party > > website from the server rather than the client to avoid the "single- > > origin security restriction"). I have been trying to figure this out > > since about 11pm last night but have not yet looked at all online > > documentation and forum posts yet. I will probably post that > > separately later this evening as its unrelated to this thread and im > > not feeling hopeful about finding an easy answer to that! > > > Thanks for your input anyway, all responses are always appreciated :D > > > J > > > On Sep 11, 9:56 am, mars1412 <martin.trum...@24act.at> wrote: > > > > to me it's no surprise, that you don't get answers to a post like this > > > > here's my very personal opinion and I assure you, it's meant to help > > > and not to offend you > > > > my opinion after reading your post is > > > > 1st impression: your not looking for answers to your questions, but > > > for someone who will write the app. for you > > > > 2nd impression: you didn't really read the docs and try simple > > > examples of whatever technology you use. > > > because storing and retrieving data from whatever datastore you use > > > is a very basic thing to do and I can't imagine that the specific > > > documentation of your datastore-product does not provide information > > > or basic examples about this. > > > > so what I suggest: > > > * read the docs > > > * try some examples > > > * provide detailed information > > > e.g. what technology are you using? > > > GWT, GAE, HIbernate, JPA, JDO, Spring, ...? > > > how do you transfer data from the server to the client? > > > RPC, JSON, ...? > > > * provide specific questions about small problems and maybe > > > even include source-code or an errormessage > > > > On Sep 10, 3:03 pm,JohnVDenley<johnvden...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > Is there anyone out there who would l like to help me out? Its > > > > ultimately a commercial product, but Im really not a programmer > > > > anymore, I used to know C, but all this webstuff is hurting my brain! > > > > > My current problem is that Ive managed to get my application to create > > > > entries in the datastore (I know thats a bit of a GAE area) but the > > > > problem Im having now is retrieving the data. Im storing an > > > > appointment into the datastore, but now when trying to retrieve it, I > > > > need to get several variables back, so far I can only get strings or > > > > string arrays back.But I really need to retrieve the date back now, as > > > > its stored as a UTC on the server, and of course that means that when > > > > if I pass it back as a string and parse it then the time is wrong for > > > > my local timezone (I know this is a horrible way to do it, but i was > > > > just trying to get something quick and dirty up and running, and then > > > > work out later how to do it properly!) > > > > > I have tried to change my server calls so they use a more complex data > > > > type (Appointment class) but the compiler is now giving me a ton of > > > > error messages which i dont understand (basically lots of "i cant > > > > resolve that type" kinds of messages) > > > > > Im a bit lost and could use some more expert help with this, but cant > > > > seem to find anyone willing to put in a bit of time and effort to help > > > > me out without wanting payment!!! > > > > > Can anyone help me please?! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. 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