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Google’s new profile editor uses GWT, cool!

Looks like they aren’t obfuscating class names yet (a feature that just landed on the tip of trunk, IIRC):

http://www.google.com/s2/gwt/resources/9312606AE1FEAAD063F34A9446584258.cache.js

The name of the project is “com.google.focus” and there are references to codenames: “evergreen” (contact info DB?) and “publicusername”.  They are also pulling some of the code from Google Collections into the final output.

There’s a bug in the latest Java 1.6  that Apple provides that gets tickled by the GWT 1.6 compiler.  It manifests as a reproducible HotSpot compiler crash that looks like this:

[java] Invalid memory access of location 00000000 rip=01160767

When you look into the crash logs that Java produces (found under ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/java_*), you can see that HotSpot was compiling a method when it crashed:

I’m having trouble getting Feedburner to update from my server, so feeds aren’t showing up in Google Reader.  It’s not pulling down the latest posts, just the ones from yesterday and before.  Any ideas?

UPDATE: It would help if I didn’t redirect FeedBurner to its own feed.

We’ve been trying out Google’s Eclipse plugin for the last week and it’s made a huge difference to our GWT development experience.  The plugin is designed to enhance your Java AppEngine and GWT workflow.  We’re mainly using it for GWT development, so the biggest wins for us are the GWT features, including:

I read all I my feeds through Google Reader. Of all the RSS readers, it is the cleanest and most convenient to use. When I started reading feeds on a mobile device, I was happy to see that the Reader team had put some effort into creating a fantastic mobile experience as well.

There are a couple of minor issues with the product: