Comments on: Grails for PHP developers part 1

By: TechBlog - Test Edition» Blogarchiv » Artikelserie Grails für PHP Entwickler

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:51:38 +0000

[...] Grails Entwickler entdeckt und so hat Michael Kimsal die ersten beiden Teile einer Folge von “Grails or PHP developers” [...]

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เกรลส์ หกสิบหก » VDO :: How To Do AJAX With Grails in NetBeans — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:13:05 +0000

[...] ( The GRails Application Generator ) ออก version 1.0 มา แล้วนะครับ – Grails for PHP developers part 1 , part 2 – จาก Talk66 Episode 3 ได้พูดถึง GroovyMag [...]

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Grails for PHP dev series bundle | Michael Kimsal’s weblog — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:51:10 +0000

[...] The new theme didn’t allow for nice formatting of ‘pages’ which the Grails articles are, so they got lost. I’m just posting a recap to the 5 links here, and may look at moving these in the future. http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/grails-for-php-developers/grails-for-php-developers-part-1 [...]

By: paul atwork

paul atwork — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:59:02 +0000

This is a great article. The comparison type gap-analysis of different technolgies and tools works really well for me.

I think we need more of these types of reviews and criticisms for all technologies and their accompanying documentation.

Thanks.

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Michael Kimsal’s weblog » Grails for PHP developers series — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:57:47 +0000

[...] installment is here, and the second is here. These aren’t part of the regular ‘blog’ entries, so [...]

By: mgkimsal

mgkimsal — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:36:03 +0000

Good point DJ – I did mention it’s a work in progress. This was more an initial draft to get something going. I don’t say above exactly, but will modify it to explain that. I didn’t even have links in the first pass!

Grails is a convention over configuration framework ala Ruby on Rails and related frameworks. It runs on Java and uses a mix of straight Java and Groovy. I made the mistake when speaking on Jason Rudolph of assuming that Grails was solely Groovy under the hood. It’s not, but that’s not terribly important for developing. You can use straight Groovy, or a mix of standard Java and Groovy when building your application logic and supporting functionality.

Groovy itself is a dynamic language that sits on top of the JVM and compiles down to Java byte code. I’m going to be putting up some more code examples in the coming days (hopefully this won’t stretch out to weeks). I also realize this was a lot of background rambling leading up to the first bit of code. I wanted to ‘paint the picture’ of why I was interested in it in the first place, but I probably went on a bit much

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:17:42 +0000

Interesting read. It was getting interesting towards the end when you got down to specifics.

I would be interested in hearing what Grails is. I don’t think you ever come out and say it explicitly. Is it a framework built on Java (a la Rails and Ruby) or is it its own language?

What’s the gotcha that might get people thinking about Grails? Is there a small bit of code that might illustrate its strengths?

Look forward to reading more.