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Building GRAILS app on Debian using Maven GRAILS Plugin
We’re now using GRAILS in one of our Maven-ized projects, and have it building using the Maven GRAILS plugin. We needed to roll this integration out to Husdon, our CI server which is running on a Debian box. We ran into a couple of snags.
We had downloaded and installed the debian package grails_1.0.4-1_all.deb [...]
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LiquiBase-ifying your Grails Application
At 2Paths we’ve got some pretty good processes in place: we practice agile software development and scrum, have all our projects set up in Continuous Integration. We try to do test-driven development where at all possible. One area that has slipped through the cracks though is database change management. What company hasn’t run into the [...]
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Can Database Refactoring be Agile?
I was fortunate enough to partially attend the Much Ado About Agile Conference held recently in Vancouver, and was immediately drawn to the session “Database Development in Agile World” led by Marc Munro. This was a very timely session as we have recently begun a project that involves refactoring a legacy database and developing a [...]
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Scrum 101
I’m known as the ScrumMistress around the office, but as of the end of August I’ve actually officially earned the name. I attended a ScrumMaster course put on by the Software Productivity Center & Winnow Management and am now a certified ScrumMaster.
Scrum is an iterative, incremental, Agile process for developing any product or managing any [...]
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No Fluff Just Stuff, April 2008
With forecasts of April snow, our 2Paths contingent of two headed off at the crack of dawn one Friday for Bellevue, WA to attend the No Fluff Just Stuff - Pacific Northwest Software Symposium (NFJS). Having only spent 10 minutes at the border (whew!), we arrived early enough in the Seattle area to fit [...]
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Persistence
Any developers working on projects involving databases will need to be aware of persistence strategies, and take these into consideration at design time. Persistence strategies are tailored to specific projects depending on a variety of circumstances such as if they are read-only or read/write, how important the timeliness of data is within the application, and [...]
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A North Carolina PostgreSQL Adventure
I recently attended a PostgreSQL Administration Course put on by the Open Technology Group in Morrisville NC. The course was excellent, covering a wide range of administrative PG tasks, and I learned lots of tricks and gotchas that I wish I knew many years ago when I first started using postgres.
Our Instructor Chander Ganesan
The [...]
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PostgreSQL Administration Course, Morrisville, NC, March 2007
In mid-March I attended a PostgreSQL Administration Course put on by the Open Technology Group www.otg-nc.com in Morrisville NC. Our instructor Chander Ganesan took us through the full gamut of PostgreSQL administration and configuration, from manual installation to performance tuning to third-party replication tools. Our course covered items such as secure access, user management, [...]
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