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The “no-sql” movement has been gaining strength over recent years. There is no denying that relational databases have their role and are highly effective in many cases. However, there are times when the scalability and availability of a relational database can become an issue. The “no-sql” movement is hoping to provide an alternative option to [...]
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(Update 20091005 – I gave the same talk at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and Barcamp Vancouver 2009, in case you end up on this page from either source) We recently presented at the Turning Statistics Into Knowledge conference, jointly organized by the US Census Bureau, the OECD and the World Bank, on July 15-16 [...]
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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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