Author: Jason Hardy-Smith

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

September 20, 2016

It’s time to de-support some really old stuff

A couple of times a week I find myself installing updates to one browser or another. Admittedly, I do use FF, Safari, Opera and Chrome. That translates to hundreds of browser versions since SmartClient 8.3 | Smart GWT 3.1 was released in 2012. With our SmartClient platform, we’re always pushing the boundaries of what web applications can do in the latest browsers. We also support users...

Categories Release/SmartClient/SmartGWT

July 25, 2016

Grid Custom Columns Provide Developer AND End User Productivity

SmartClient’s Grid Custom Columns provide end users with built-in wizards to define: 1. Formula fields that can compute values using other fields 2. Summary fields that can combine other fields with intervening / surrounding text. Empowering end users with Custom Columns frees-up developers from never ending one-off requests. It also makes end users more productive, getting them the data they...

Categories Feature/HTML5/SmartClient/SmartGWT/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

May 19, 2016

4 More Features that Sneaked into 11 |6

A few more features that we haven’t told you about made it into SmartClient 11 | Smart GWT 6, and they are actually pretty awesome … even if we do say so ourselves! 🙂 #1 Formula Fields You can now declare that a form field should calculate it’s value automatically based on values in surrounding fields or other surrounding components. ...

Categories Feature/HTML5/Release/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Tools/UI

May 4, 2016

Join us at the DevOps Conference – Get your FREE Pass

Join us at the DevOps Conference Isomorphic will be at the DevOps Summit in the Javits Center, NY next month (June 7-9), and we’d love you to join us. Follow the steps at the bottom of the page to get your FREE VIP GOLD FULL CONFERENCE PASS.. One of the highlights will be our CTO, Charles Kendrick, discussing how to leverage technology to accelerate Agile development...

Categories DevOps/Industry/Technology

April 7, 2016

User Interface Insights

We recently saw an upward trend in requests for increasing the default size of our UI controls and fonts. On one hand, this made sense. A bunch of technologies have emerged that, while they certainly don’t have the capabilities of SmartClient, they do have simplicity in their interface that many users like. On the other hand, many Isomorphic customers (pharma,...

Categories Customers/Roadmap/Technology/UI

March 30, 2016

Available NOW: SmartClient 11 | Smart GWT 6

All at Isomorphic are very excited to announce the 11|6 is now generally available! In this blog, we hopefully answer many of your questions, or point you to where answers can be found. What’s in 11 | 6 ? SmartClient 11 | Smart GWT 6 is a major release. It includes functionality such as: New adaptive UI capabilities so that your desktop...

Categories Release/Roadmap/SmartClient/SmartGWT