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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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We’ve held back on going fully AWS as trying to get terabytes of data over to them would have been a colossal waste of time/money over a network connection. Today, Amazon web services announced they can receive USB 2/esata devices up to 8U high if you want to load up large data sets into [...]
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Largely for my own reference, here are some Unix shell tricks that have come up lately. If you’re using Linux, Mac OS X, or other Unix-like systems, these might be handy. Redirecting output When a process starts, it opens three file descriptors: file descriptor 0 for standard input (STDIN), file descriptor 1 for standard output (STDOUT), and [...]
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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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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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