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June 27, 2011

The one thing we care about more than technology

Filed under: Blog — OpenGambit @ 12:51 pm
NY stock exchange building

We open-source developers have a well-deserved reputation for being passionate about software. It’s not just a job for us — solving problems and streamlining the solutions to be elegant and intuitive is as much of a calling for us as curing a disease might be for a doctor, or composing a symphony for a musician. [...]

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May 23, 2011

Our Employees: Worth Their Weight in Gold

Filed under: Blog — OpenGambit @ 10:38 am
Diwali lights

    Throughout South Asia, everyone from small children to big-shot businesspeople look forward all year to Diwali, a holiday that lasts for five days of fireworks, lanterns and celebrations with family and friends. Diwali is also important to the business community, since it marks the beginning of India’s fiscal year. Like the winter holiday [...]

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May 20, 2011

Say Yes to Web 2.0 with the Google Web Toolkit

Filed under: Blog — OpenGambit @ 10:03 am
Essential tools for business

If you’ve been in business for any length of time, you’re probably in the habit of thinking of tech upgrades as expensive, labor-intensive and likely to get in theway of everything else your business is working on. So it will be a relief to learn that you can get on board with one of the [...]

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May 18, 2011

Want to compete with huge national companies? There’s an app for that!

Filed under: Blog — OpenGambit @ 12:18 pm
Woman with smartphone

    Good news: Thanks to mobile technology and other recent innovations, insurance customers can find instant customer service and real-time policy information and updates at the touch of a button. Bad news: This technology can be expensive to develop, and the cost can create an “app gap” — making it harder for smaller, locally-based [...]

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March 28, 2011

Four reasons why your business should be using open-source software today

Filed under: Blog — OpenGambit @ 4:02 pm
Idea lightbulb

You know that pre-packaged software applications can have their frustrations. They come with features you don’t need (like that little talking paper clip guy), and don’t have all of the features you do need. You can’t reach tech support, or when you do, you get an iffy connection with someone who doesn’t understand or care [...]

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March 16, 2011

Welcome to the Lower Forty-Eight!

Filed under: Blog — OpenGambit @ 3:26 pm
Hawaii skyline

Lots of people dream of moving from mainland USA to Hawaii, the ideal island getaway. So why did my family, the founders of OpenGambit, decide to wave goodbye to the beach and hello to the decidedly less tropical climate of North Carolina in the winter? It all came down to the incredible opportunities that NCʼs [...]

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Do One Thing Every Day

Filed under: Blog — OpenGambit @ 3:25 pm
Doing too many things.

Having trouble meeting project deadlines or staying on top of multiple tasks at work? If youʼre like a lot of people, you might be doing too many things. No, really. It sounds a little bit backward to say that youʼre not getting enough done because youʼre doing too much, but look at it this way [...]

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Where Weʼre Coming From, or, The Story of a Problem

Filed under: Blog — Kiran Addepalli @ 3:22 pm
Ship at sunset

It started with a problem. Actually, there were two problems. My client, a major insurance company, was pretty sure that they had a problem with their IT infrastructure — but they didnʼt know what the problem was. I had the problem of having just gotten off a boat to Hawaii, where they were based, to [...]

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June 17, 2010

Part II: Getting Started with Maven-Spring-Hibernate-Smartgwt

Filed under: Blog — Tags: , , — Kiran Addepalli @ 3:58 am

In my last post I was able to get the basic setup to work with the SmartGWT and Spring. My next goals were to go a little further: Separate maven projects for domain objects, core services and web components. Use JPA annotations for domain objects and get rid of the HBM mapping files. Upgrade libraries [...]

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June 11, 2010

Part I: Getting Started with Maven-Spring-Hibernate-Smartgwt

Filed under: Blog — Tags: , — Kiran Addepalli @ 5:54 pm

I recently came across a fantastic library SmartGWT (http://code.google.com/p/smartgwt/)  built on SmartClient (www.smartclient.com). The framework seems very mature and rich in widgets for our purposes. The big challenge however was to fit into our Maven based structure. Note: I have decided to use the sample code that comes with smartgwtee evaluation version. The  enterprise version [...]

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