Yak Shaving

Had a hard job getting this to work. But as usual the solution is quite simple:

1. Download and unzip http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tools/redist/mozilla/mozilla-1.7.13.tar.gz
2. Add $INSTALLED_MOZILLA (e.g. /code/mozilla-1.7.13) to mozilla-hosted-browser.conf in the GWT
3. Add $INSTALLED_MOZILLA (e.g. /code/mozilla-1.7.13) to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf (can be any file in that dir ending in conf)
4. run ldconfig
5. Start your app and have fun!

If you see gwt-linux-1.5.2/libgwt-ll.so: undefined symbol: JS_PropertyStub then your mozilla-hosted-browser.conf needs to be set to the downloaded mozilla from set 1. Looks like the newer Firefox and Seamonkey dont have this symbol.

• 1800 candy bars eaten (inspiring Twitter conspiracies about why we had so much chocolate.)
  
• 550 developers in attendance
• 60 Megabytes of internet (that never crashed!)
• 24 Google speakers
• 24 Google volunteers
• 20 partner speakers (Hyves, Netlog, Rummble, Lastminute.com, ITN, the Met Office & the head of the Android User Group.)
• 6 feet worth of stacked giant Jenga pieces
  
• 2 giant screens that had powerpoint & code throughout the day, then Wii and Guitar Hero for the party.

And of course me Read more over atGDD Blog.

I’m off to London for this Google Dev Day. Drop me an email if you are coming down.

I’m really starting to love teh “web 2.0″. My latest toy is ping.fm. It allows you to update multiple services. I have my twitter and indenti.ca setup so that one entry on ping.fm pushes the update to both services.