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 got a taste for speaking last year, and submitted three more proposals this year for OSCON.  I submitted:

Groovy/Grails for PHP developers
Open Source Search overview
Open Source Risks

We’ll see how these are received.  I hear of people submitting 5-10 proposals and not getting any accepted, yet I submitted only one last year and was accepted.  I [...]

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Got an interesting reply from Mikeal Rogers on the subject of copyright, open source, contributor license agreements, and such.  His post was in reply to a recent podcast from codemash on these subjects.  It’s a bit much to reprint here, so I’ve linked to the forum post.  Lots to think about.
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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 had a fun time recording this ‘open spaces’ meeting at Codemash last week.  This was led by Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project, and joining us was Kevin Devine from the Euclid Public Library, Sara Ford from Codeplex @ Microsoft, Steven Harman from the Subtext project and - shoot - I do not have [...]

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Sun is acquiring MySQL

OK, well, I thought I’d be able to find a few more interesting tidbits, but these two are interesting enough to me for a Wednesday morning.  Obviously the Sun/MySQL thing is big - will they use the acronym SPAM for Solaris/PHP/Apache/MySQL?  I claim “first post” on inventing that acronym, although I’m sure [...]

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I had considered submitting a codemash proposal about “Grails for PHP developers”.  I was counseled out of this by a certain someone as it was considered “too niche”.  I probably could have renamed it “Grails for non-Java developers”, and submitted it.  I think I will do that next year (or keep the PHP tag in [...]

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I had a chance to have a fun discussion with Dave Kroondyk, Adam Lumsden and Elizabeth Naramore about web development, ecommerce, project management, content management systems, shark dissection, PHP, Mozilla’s Weave project, general MIchigan awesomeness and some other topics. I was a bit closer to the mike than I should have been, but worse [...]

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