Paul Grenyer

by Richard Morgen (978-0575075504) Broken Angels may be "the new diamond hard novel from the author of altered carbon ", but it isn't anywhere near as good. It's not a bad novel, but I did find it took quite a while to get going. Once it did get going it was much improved. In life, as well as in books, I like to know what's happening and why. Broken Angels is almost like a description of what's happening, without any explanation of why and I found that frustrating, but it also encouraged me to finish the book. Most events are explained towards the end. Kovacs changes side a few times and sometimes that can be difficult to understand and follow. The violence and the sex is still there. In fact Morgan has stepped them up slightly. I will be reading Market Forces at some point in the future, but if that isn't better I will probably let Richard Morgan go by the wayside.

GWT-Ext is a great set of widgets for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). At the time of writing the release candidates for GWT 1.6 are out. GWT 1.6 has a different project structure and embedded Java Servlet (Jetty) server. These changes bring the advantage that the project structure can be deployed directly to a Java Servlet server (such as Jetty of TomCat) without having to manually create the WAR directory. A slight disadvantage is that the setup documentation for GWT-EXT is no longer quite right. Below I describe the steps necessary to create a GWT 1.6 project with eclipse and configure it for GWT-Ext. Install the Google Plugin for Eclipse (http://code.google.com/eclipse/docs/getting_started.html). Use the plugin to create simple GWT application: Select File -> New -> Web Application Project from the Eclipse menu. In the New Web Application Project wizard, enter a name for your project (e.g. MegaDeth) and a java package name, e.g., com.megadeth . Take the tick out of the Use Goo...