Lots of new GWT apps this week.

• The Tombs of Asciiroth
  An old school puzzle/adventure game built using GWT. Also uses Google Gears for saving your game and there’s an Adobe Air version as well.
• Brightpages.com
  An online yellow pages directory. They recently ported their site over from Struts to GWT.
• Chosr
  Quicksilver for the web. If you’ve ever used Quicksilver on the Mac, you’ll recognize this neat little GWT app.
• GWT, GWT-Ext and MIME/Multipart Forms
  A blog post discussing a workaround when using GWT-Ext file upload.
• ScURLr
  A screenshot generator tool built using Google App Engine and GWT. You can use this to take screenshots of any web url.

I just noticed that the new GWT 1.5 RC2 build is now available to download. You can grab it from . Below are some of the notable enhancements and bug fixes from the release notes:

General Enhancements

• Added support for the contextmenu event, which allows users to detect and override the browser’s default context menu
• Improved performance of NumberFormat
• Added support for altering the number of decimals in a currency in NumberFormat
• Improved performance of Animations
• Improved the appearance of the default GWT style themes
• Improved the Showcase sample with more robust examples and more language translations
• FormPanel can now wrap an existing form and still submit it to a hidden iframe

Fixed Issues

• DOM.getAbsoluteLeft/Top() and DOM.eventGetClientX/Y() no longer log an exception to the console in Firefox 3
• Fixed a memory leak in Internet Explorer
• DOM.getAbsoluteLeft/Top() now takes into account the margin and border of the target element in Safari 3
• Fixed some bugs associated with history support

There are also some changes in this build that may affect your existing GWT applications so make sure to check out the full release notes for details.

I apologize for the lack of updates over the past 6 weeks. But I’m back now.

• 
  Great article by Bruce Johnson explaining the new JavaScript overlay types that were introduced in GWT 1.5.
• 
  Samantha Lemonnier from the Google Health team shares her team’s experience with deciding upon and ultimately using GWT for their project.
• Speeding up the GWT compiler Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
  Olivier has an interesting blog post about speeding up the GWT compiler by trying to reduce the number of permutations in his gwt module file.
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  Khun Yee Fung shares his experiences on the GWT group with building his GWT based job site (http://www.careercommons.com)
• Restlet ported to GWT!
  With the introduction of generics in GWT 1.5 RC1, the Restlet API has now been ported over to GWT.