Synth stuff, iteration 17 published

Yes I have been silent for a while. It seems for the past two weeks I have been pretty busy and not had that much time for coding.

In the small amount of time I have had I have tried to put it to good use. So what have I been up to.

Well first of all I have rewritten the app to use javascript rather than GWT. I am use JQuery to make my life a little bit better. The reasons for this are not at all technical and may seem a little bit of an odd way to make these sorts of decisions, I will eventually get round to writing about them in a blog entry. I spent about 3 evening recoding the synth app to javascript.

That was pretty quick but then but not a vindication of JavaScript being a more productive language more just I knew what I was doing this time! I also dropped Java on the server side and moved to python. Well if you are going to go for dynamic languages you may as well go the whole hog. This took a couple of hours to get set up nothing more as all I am doing is serving some static pages.

I should now be able to start to iterate again at a reasonable pace even if I am well behind where I hoped to be in October. The latest iteration is functionally equivalent to what was published previously - I hope.