Available on Java User Group Scotland website, GWT in Practice.

The first time I saw something about Stack Overflow was while I was reading Joel on Software. Couple days ago I finally created my account there and started using it. So far my impression has been very positive.

Stack Overflow is basically just a question-answer site for software developers. But because of its active user mass good questions are replied rapidly and bad ones are moderated. Users receive more privileges the more they are writing good questions and answers.

What is a good question or answer then? That is up to other users who can vote, edit or close your entry.

Yesterday I hosted Java User Group Scotland - JUGS meeting at my workplace for the second time. This meeting was about JBoss Seam and there was a presentation by Ashish Kulkarni. It was pretty useful as I did not know much about Seam before.

I was also looking forward to receive a review copy of GWT in Practice by Robert T. Cooper and Charlie E. Collins. I have been using GWT for a couple months and it is definitely a fascinating piece of software. It will be interesting to see how this book brings up some new approaches or tricks. Eventually the review will be online under JUGS website's book review section.

Actually, GWT is not the only new technology I have been lucky enough to use at work. We are using agile approach in a new project and therefore our database schemas are under constant change. H2 is a Java database engine written by Thomas Mueller and it allows us to have disposable in-memory database which gets populated by a migration process fed by a legacy database. The H2 project is also very active and bugs are fixed pretty quickly.