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One of our colleagues, Mark Busse from Industrial Brand Creative, is helping to organize what looks to be a very….interesting event: “The plan is to have all sorts of speakers speak about all sorts of stuff. Not brands, advertising, blogging and twitter but interesting, unexpected, original things. I’m hoping to find fascinating people and to just [...]
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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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