Category: Tools

October 24, 2017

Electronic Digital Signature Capture (Thanks, ESutherland!)

Your users could print out all their documents, sign them, scan the signed docs, email the associated PDF, then file or shred the paper. But that would be a huge waste of paper, ink and time. Instead, due to a contribution to our forums (Thanks, ESutherland!), there is now a better way: Electronic Digital Signature Capture functionality, nicely packaged as a new...

Categories Customer Success/Customers/Feature/Tools/UI

September 27, 2017

Revolutionizing Lab Operation Digitization w/ Genohm’s SLIMS Application

Modern lab technologies such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) can generate millions of results from each test. Manual paper-based systems are therefore obsolete. There are solutions available to manage lab processes and results, but they have limitations and are cost prohibitive. Genohm CEO – Frederick Decouttere – saw this as an opportunity and built the revolutionary ‘SLIMS’ web application. SLIMS is...

Categories Charts/Customer Success/Customers/HTML5/Mobile/SmartGWT/Tools/UI

March 21, 2017

Last Set of New Features in the Next Release

11.1 | 6.1 is very close to release. You can play with some upcoming features and experience the new ‘Tahoe‘ skin here. In this post, we are sharing the final set of features to be included in the release. For a full list of features in 11.1 | 6.1, see these previous blogs: Coming Soon: SmartClient 11.1 | 6.1 New Release Preview (Part II) New...

Categories Feature/Release/Tools/UI

November 23, 2016

New Release Preview (Part III)

This is the third post about our upcoming release: SmartClient 11.1 | Smart GWT 6.1. Previous posts can be seen here: Part I – Histogram chart, Selenium image load check, Grid support for auto-sizing to wrapped titles Part II – Scrolling charts, Visual builder DataSource Validators, Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V   Here are a few more 11.1 | 6.1 features: Audio Playback Use the Sound class...

Categories Feature/Release/Roadmap/Tools

November 16, 2016

Our Experience with DevOps

These days, there are numerous conferences, news articles, training courses and discussions going on around DevOps. As I am sure you know, DevOps breaks down barriers between Development, Operations and QA, improving communication & collaboration, all with the goal of releasing higher quality products more frequently. How we got started We founded Isomorphic in 1998. Right from the start – probably due to the proximity and small...

Categories DevOps/Tools

October 28, 2016

Next Release Preview (Part II)

A few weeks ago, we talked about a few features in the upcoming release, SmartClient 11.1 | Smart GWT 6.1. Here are a few more:   For When There’s Just Too Much Data … Meet the Scrolling Chart Sometimes when you try to fit it all on one page, it just becomes unreadable. Labels have to be rotated by 90 degrees because...

Categories Charts/dashboard/Feature/Release/Tools/UI

October 13, 2016

Java Ecosystem Insights, Free Cloud Expo Pass … and One More Thing

  Exec Insights on the State of the Java Ecosystem Tom Smith from DZone recently interviewed Isomorphic CTO, Charles Kendrick, and several other execs, to get insights into the state of the Java ecosystem. Tom’s article was published in Dzone’s Guide to Modern Java. A few of the highlights were: The open source community is driving more innovation than Oracle Java continues to...

Categories DevOps/Industry/Roadmap/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology/Tools

October 7, 2016

Coming Soon: SmartClient 11.1 | Smart GWT 6.1

It’s time to start talking about our next release, SmartClient 11.1 | Smart GWT 6.1. It is gonna be a good one! Here are just a few of the features: #1: Selenium: Easy way to check if images/icons load successfully You can now use “/imageLoaded” as a manually added suffix for locators that target Img components or other components that show...

Categories Charts/dashboard/Feature/Release/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Tools/UI

July 19, 2016

DevOps Patterns and Anti-patterns: How to do the Right Thing in the Real World.

In DevOps, what patterns lead to success? What are the anti-patterns that should be avoided? Charles Kendrick – CTO here at Isomorphic Software – recently participated in a DevOps power panel at the Cloud Expo in New York. The session was very well attended and incredibly well received. We thought we would share a few of the questions posed to...

Categories DevOps/Industry/Technology/Tools

July 8, 2016

Have you heard of Adaptive Filtering?

Adaptive filtering helps make your applications run lightening fast, not only on the desktop, but also on tablets and smartphones. How does it do this? It automatically switches to client-side filtering when the dataset becomes small enough. In doing so, it eliminates up to 90% of the most costly types of server contact (searching through large datasets), dramatically improving responsiveness and scalability. Want to...

Categories Feature/Technology/Tools