I went to my usual weekly meeting at Skills Matter, this time about HTML5 and the Google Web Toolkit.
Before the meeting started, I got talking to one or two people, unusual as I'm usually too tired to be a good conversationalist in the evening. At one point, someone asked what we all did and here we had four completely different approaches to the idea of work. There was the two salaried, one of which was a telecommuter. Another was a small-businessman and the fourth was what you might call a flexi-worker. He worked three twelve hour shifts in a bar (thirty-six hours) and then had four days off to work on whatever he wanted. The start-up guy was trying to promote a planning and organisation utility called Plancake. Ironically, throughout our conversation he was continuously writing things down on paper and post-it notes with a pen.
Tonight was a talk by Dmitry Buzdin, a Latvian, and was about how the GWT copes with the changes in HTML5 (A friend of mine pointed me in the way of this useful web page on the subject). GWT is a compiler that takes Java code (or Java-like) and converts it into JavaScript enabling it to be run client-side in a web browser.
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