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Last night was a great Groovy meetup at the Boats.com office here in downtown Vancouver. I got to use the new Burrard Bridge dedicated bike lanes, which is always fun, but it was the meetup content that I really enjoyed. Yuri from Boats.com went through their experience of using Groovy and Grails for some real projects. Using [...]
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Last Friday I gave a presentation to the team here at 2Paths on the testing capabilities in Grails 1.1. As you Grails die-hards know, Grails 1.1 introduced the new GrailsUnitTestCase class which is a very useful extension of GroovyTestCase with support for mocking the dynamic properties and methods that Grails injects into various types of classes [...]
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I put together a Grails app to try out memcached. Like a lot of things in Grails, it was quite simple to integrate memcached once I found the right magic words. hibernate-memcached works nicely and has clear setup instructions. Install memcached, which is simple if you use a Mac and have MacPorts installed. $ sudo port install [...]
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Based on my recent experimenting with CouchDB I have conflicted feelings of whether to get on, or stay off the couch. I am intrigued by the notion of a schema-free document-based database, and how applications could be created to leverage such a technology. I am also reserved about its benefits to my current work environment. [...]
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Aaron and I got back last week from the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference, aka Semtech2009, and after four solid days of twittering and forgetting people’s names and awkward conversation, I figured I should comment on what was cool and what was forgettable before everything shifts from the first category to the second. The basic conference elements [...]
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