I’ve got a small Grails project I started some time ago which I’ll announce here in case anyone is interested in helping or just using it as a base.  GrailsKit is intended to be a small starter kit for Grails projects that need web-based management of user accounts, self-registration, and basic page/controller authentication.  None of [...]

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These deserves more than a twitter…
1. I just got my copy of Scott Davis’ “Groovy Recipes” book - I’ll be posting a review as soon as a I can. First impression is about a 8.5 out of 10.
2. Just came across this -> http://froth-and-java.blogspot.com/2007/06/html-screen-scraping-with-groovy.html <- didn’t know about [...]

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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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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 put up a small survey which I’m hoping will help me get an idea of whether there’s any connection between computer language choice and religious identification.  Do Catholics gravitate towards Java?  Are Python users more likely to be Baptist?  It’s basically a ‘fun’ thing - I don’t claim it’ll be scientific, but I’m still [...]

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I’m working on a series of articles aimed at explaining the Grails Java framework to people with a non-Java background. The comparisons I plan to make will be mostly to PHP, cause that’s what I’m most familiar with, though there may be some other comparisons from time to time. This is a work [...]

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I’ve been working with a couple guys on a Grails-based project in my spare time, but I bunked off today and wrote something else. Much smaller in scale, and inspired a bit by my recent twittering, I put together tinyPollr.com. Yes, the name is a dumb ripoff of flickr - (”big deal, you [...]

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I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Sun for many moons.  They give us OpenOffice, Java, etc. on the one hand, but then come up with byzantine licensing structures (CDDL was Sun, right?  and SCSL was for sure) and get antagonistic towards JBoss and others on occasion.  Ultimately, trying to ascribe a single mindset to Sun [...]

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