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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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Here’s a scenario we see fairly often in our Grails applications. Parent object has a collection of Child objects We want the Parent’s create and edit GSPs to allow us to add/remove/update associated Child objects The controller should correctly persist changes to the collection of Child objects, including maintaining Child object ids so any other objects referencing [...]
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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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A work in progress visualization of freedb (RDF version of wikipedia).
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Working as both a Developer and as a ScrumMaster has skewed my perspective a bit to be dev-team centric, so I recently took SolutionsIQ’s Certified Product Owner course to learn more about the scrum software development process through the eyes of a Product Owner. The course was laid out in a novel way – as a [...]
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