Perhaps I’m completely alone in this, but I don’t always commit every single change I make when I make it. A recent project has me chasing down a series of nested problems, and when it’s finally ‘fixed’, I have numerous changes in files that don’t necessarily relate to each other. For example, in [...]

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I was doing a big of Grails work this weekend and stumbled on this page describing GORM events.  The 1.0 release of Grails introduced 4 new events in to domain objects:

beforeInsert
beforeUpdate
beforeDelete
onLoad

You can probably guess what these do based on the name - there’s nothing terribly secret going on here.  It’s not even terribly earth-shattering, but [...]

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I’ve put up the latest installment in my “Grails for PHP developers”.  Rather than delve too much more in to Grails head on, I’m taking this installment (and at least the next one) to delve more in to the Groovy language itself.  Groovy offers similarities to PHP, but also many differences which can trip you [...]

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I’m testing out the latest Firefox 3 (beta 3).  It upgraded quickly, loads faster, and has some really neat new features.  You can grab a copy here.
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For anyone that has struggled with using PHP and MSSQL over the years, this one may come as some pleasant news (if you’re still in that situation).  Microsoft has put out a preview of “SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP” back in October 2007 (yeah, I just found out this morning!).  Ehh… not as impressed [...]

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Hot off the presses, Grails 1.0 is released.  I haven’t been this excited about a tech release in ages.  I’ve got a couple projects I’ve been working on in Grails (besides tinypollr.com ) but have been lax in recently.  Perhaps this’ll be the impetus to finally finish and release them? 
Grails has certainly come a [...]

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Ted Neward does a good job of dissecting a post from Stu @ Relevance on ‘How to pick a platform’.  I won’t repeat everything said in those posts - they each do a better job of representing their positions than I could.  I would take exception to Ted’s comment towards the end of his post:
My [...]

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I’ve not done any major development work specifically inside MS Windows for a few years now, and I’ve forgotten what some of the hassles are.  Today I revisited that world, looking to play with the new ASP.NET and .NET 3.5 framework.  Whew what a hassle.  Let me start by saying I can only run Windows [...]

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Matt Blodgett recently twittered about developers and private offices.  “I wonder if mgmt knows how bad they are killing productivity by doing that? Are they ignorant, or just stupid?” was a followup twitter I got from him, and I started replying.  Twitter’s too limiting for what I was trying to say, so I’ll say it [...]

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I had a good conversation with Joe Fiorini about balancing his daily work in .NET with a passion and enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails.  Have a listen.
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