A Cool CSS Effect to Dim the Screen (Dashboard Style)

Nice short explanation of how to dim you page background just like Apple's Dashboard.

link

I want to use this in GWT ... :D

timed invocation aspect

In the interview Joshua Bloch on Closures, Resource Management, Google, Joshua Bloch mentions, and praises, a facility a google employee created to timeout method invocations. A couple of years ago I had the need for such utility and ended up creating it. That code is nowhere to be seen now, as my employer has changed a couple of times since then.

Most certainly this is a very handy facility in everyday programming. It will be very nice if the "method timeout invocation" concern could be easly integrated into the code using aspects!

@timeout(millis=1000)
public void foo() {
...
}

Where:

/**
 * Times out a method invocation. If any of the methods matched by the pointcut invocationToTimeOut() has not  
 * returned after the specified timeout, the unchecked exception InvocationTimeout will be thrown.
 */
aspect TimeoutInvocation {
...
}