Posted by:
Matthew Taylor
on 02/06/2010
This post is for Mario. I started it as an email to him, but he suggested it as a blog post in the first place, and now that it’s done it does seem to be post-worthly (although off-topic).
Here are the details of my new home TV system.
First of all, the only paying services I have for TV entertainment are DSL and Netflix. You can get the cheapest Netflix membership and still get all the “Watch it now” content that they have. Not the best and most recent movies, but... more »
Posted by:
Robert Fischer
on 02/05/2010
When encountering a bug in an open source project, most Java people seem unwilling to either fix it themselves or pay the maintainer to fix it—they’d rather abandon the project or kludge their software painfully and repetitively. WTF?
CommentsFebruary 5, 2010, Hamlet D'Arcy wrote: In the past my problem has been that my organization would not let me rely on a personal or nightly build of a project. So when you need a workaround by the end of the week, waiting 2 months for the next... more »
Posted by:
Andres Almiray
on 02/04/2010
In just a few weeks (March 1-3) the first edition of ESDC will take place in San Mateo, California. ESDC is a brand new conference that offers more than 70 workshops and technical classes. There are plenty of topics to choose from. Groovy, Grails and Griffon are no exception. A list of Groovy related workshops and classes follows.
WORKSHOPS
Groovy Tutorial – Scripting on the JVM - Paul King
Groovy is a dynamic language for the JVM; it’s like a super version of Java. For Java... more »
Posted by:
Burt Beckwith
on 02/03/2010
I saw a plaintive wail on Twitter about using GMail as the smtp server to send error emails using a Log4j SMTPAppender in Grails. It turned out to be a little tricky (and a bigger solution than 140 characters would allow) so I thought I'd describe the process here.
Most of the properties are configurable as appender attributes (e.g. server name, auth username, etc.) but two important ones aren't. SMTPAppender creates a Properties instance with System.getProperties() as the default values... more »
Posted by:
Greg Turnquist
on 02/03/2010
Pre-order your copy of the Spring Python book!
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Explore the versatility of Spring Python by integrating it with frameworks, libraries, and tools
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Posted by:
Robert Fischer
on 02/02/2010
From the Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and Sites features — won’t work properly in older browsers.
w00t! Die,... more »
Posted by:
Andrew Glover
on 02/02/2010
The easyb team is pleased to announce the posting of a hip introductory video that demonstrates both specifications and stories in action. In this 8 and 1/2 minute video, you’ll learn that easyb enables you to express human readable expectations that verify any Java application (or to be more precise, anything running on the JVM) and that you express those expectations in Groovy.
If you think easyb concisely expresses expectations (i.e. features or requirements) in a... more »
Posted by:
Robert Fischer
on 01/31/2010
Thanks to Alicia Weller. It started a minor clean-up of the previous theme and (like most software projects) evolved into something much more interesting and exciting. There’s now a big area for features (e.g. open source projects), a space for “Classic Enfranchised Mind” posts, and an excerpt (instead of full-text) based front page. We’ve also shifted to the asynchronous Google Analytics tracking, which helps speed up load times.
We stuck with the same header:... more »
Posted by:
Russell Miles
on 01/29/2010
I'm a big fan of Twitter, especially at conferences where I'm an organiser. Nothing gives a feel better for how things are going, or what people really want, than the brutal honesty of 140 characters.
So as we're now less than 6 weeks away from QCon London 2010, and I'm track hosting the "Pragmatic Cloud" track, I thought I'd get things rolling by asking if everyone going to QCon who are attending (or speaking at) the cloud track could add the hashtag #pragcloud (and probably #qcon would... more »
Posted by:
Russell Miles
on 01/29/2010
As "Pragmatic Cloud Computing" track host for QCon London, I'm very pleased to say that the track is now finalised with a truly stellar collection of speakers. We have:
Chris Read from ThoughtWorks giving us the low-down on his real-world cloud deployment experiences
One of my absolute favourite speakers, Simon Wardley from Canonical to take us on the next step through his amazingly huge ... slide deck
Ümit Yalcinalp from SalesForce.com taking a harsh-but-necessary look... more »
Posted by:
Andres Almiray
on 01/28/2010
The following is but a preview of the capabilities exposed by the Griffon Gtk plugin. Ubuntu's Quickly is a desktop application framework inspired by Rails. It lets you build Gtk+Python applications in a snap (is there any doubt that a new breed of desktop application frameworks was needed?), in a similar fashion as Griffon lets you do it.Quickly applications rely on XML formatted files to describe their UI elements. These files can be parsed using Glade. It turns out that the java-gnome... more »
Posted by:
Billy Newport
on 01/28/2010
We get asked a lot how to create global indexes with WebSphere eXtreme Scale (Scale). Scale usually keeps K/V pairs in a large distributed hash table (DHT). Customer want to index attributes of the value and then run queries to find all the Keys with values match some criteria based on the index.You can, of course, index the attribute and then run a parallel agent to run a query on each partition and then union the results. That works but isn't great from a throughput scaling point of view... more »
Posted by:
Matthew Taylor
on 01/28/2010
I get a lot of questions on GrailsUI here on my blog, and while it is nice to get feedback, blog comments aren’t the best place to give out technical advice. If you have any questions or comments about GrailsUI, I invite you to become part of the Grails community and join the Grails User mailing list. I usually respond to any email question sent to that list that conains the text “GrailsUI” anywhere in it. And I’m not the only person answering questions there. You... more »
Posted by:
Robert Fischer
on 01/27/2010
If you’ve got a smart phone, would you mind hitting http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog with it and letting me know how it looks? I’ve installed a plugin to add mobile support to WordPress, and I’d like feedback.
CommentsJanuary 27, 2010, Cody Brimhall wrote: Looks great from my iPhone!January 27, 2010, Nathan L. Walls wrote: I just checked Mobile Safari and it looks good. Actions for showing/hiding post summary from the index page works. Good default view per post.January... more »
Posted by:
Andrew Glover
on 01/27/2010
SDTimes recently published an article entitled “Five changes for application development in 2010” in which they reference a newly released Forrester report. This report attempts to delineate five changes regarding how development will be conducted in 2010 (and beyond) based upon the less than ideal economic climate we’re currently living in. In fact, the authors of the Forrester report use the term “lean and mean” to describe the focus going forward, which... more »
Posted by:
Russell Miles
on 01/26/2010
Today I have the immense pleasure of announcing the launch of the OpenCredo AMQ project. From the project announcement page:
"The goal of OpenCredo AMQ project is to facilitate communication between Java applications and AMQ servers (brokers)."
Headed up by OpenCredo founder Jonas Partner, our team have developed the following key features in this first version of the code:
AmqTemplate - This template, in the style of Spring's Template approach (JDBCTemplate for example),... more »
Posted by:
Russell Miles
on 01/25/2010
I recently gave two talks in Tunis:
Spring Integration: Past, Present and Future
Pragmatic Cloud Computing for the Business
The slides are now available for viewing and download on SlideShare (see below).
Spring Integration: Past, Present and Future(s), Tunis, January 2010 View more documents from opencredo.
Flexible IT: Bringing Business Change and IT together with Cloud ComputingView more documents from opencredo.
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Posted by:
Keith Donald
on 01/25/2010
In my last entry, I walked you through several enhancements in Spring 3 for web application development. A number of you expressed interest in a follow-up entry focused on Ajax remoting. Spring 3 provides a lot in this area to take advantage of. Read on, and I'll walk you through it.
Spring and [...]
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Posted by:
Burt Beckwith
on 01/25/2010
The topic of delaying DataSource and SessionFactory creation until some point after startup has come up a few times on the Grails user mailing list so I thought I'd give it a shot. I got it working, but it's not pretty.
Grails (and Hibernate) will create up to three connections during initialization so the primary focus is to avoid those. In addition the DataSource will pre-instantiate connections, so we'll delay those as well.
The first connection required is for... more »
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