I have to admit, I’ve never been in to ColdFusion.  I used it on a couple small projects back in the early 2000s (was just brought in to finish/fix existing code), but never really dug it.  Not that it was *bad*, but the early versions really smacked of watered-down development.  Everything’s a “tag”, so it’s [...]

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I just stumbled on this article Sunday morning.  This snippet sums up the product:
There is a way of marrying the advantages of .NET development with Java deployment. Using Mainsoft for Enterprise Edition (EE), Visual Studio developers can write code in .NET and cross-compile it to Java. Not only code, but pieces of the Framework; Mainsoft [...]

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I’ve been using PHP since early 1996, back in the PHP/FI days.  I’ve used it steadily over the years, sometimes full time and sometimes part time, but that’s been pretty much a primary language for me for 12 years now.  During that time I’ve seen a lot of language changes, some for better and some [...]

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Just a quick note on what I’ve been working on with GrailsKit.  I’m currently putting together a “user profile” page, which allows a user to edit their own profile.  Nothing too fancy, but I’m learning as I go how best to do this in Grails.  Coupla new points learned doing this (it’s not done yet [...]

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As probably some of you out there can relate to, I can go through up and down cycles - periods where you’re really fired up on a project or goal, then the inevitable periods of backsliding.  I’ve been going through a couple of those the past several months, but was revitalized (again) by Jared Richardson.  [...]

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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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I’ve put together a small page with some notes which have helped me during my recent set up of phpUnderControl.  I will probably add more to the list in the coming weeks, but these are a couple stumbling blocks I hit the past few days.  If you’re not using phpUnderControl, you owe it to yourself [...]

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I’ve had a book project in the back of my mind for a bit.  Though there’s never enough hours in the day to get everything done I need to, I have one book I’m wrapping up in the next few days, and am seriously considering committing myself to this next one.  No publisher lined up [...]

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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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