memcached and Grails

July 16, 2009 | by Tim
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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Hudson – too easy

August 2, 2008 | by Geoff
Continuous integration is a lovely thing. Automated testing is also lovely as you can see where things work or not almost instantly in different environments and scenarios. Over the years I have used a few CI servers and tools – most notably, CruiseControl (Java and .NET) and Continuum (from the Maven crew). These systems, whilst useful, [...]
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Tricking Continuum : Self-Dependencies and the Antrun Plugin

October 24, 2007 | by Garrett
A project I’m working on was recently added to continuum to track build success. Unfortunately, we had to include the maven antrun plugin to handle two self-dependencies that the project has. I say unfortunate, because it made life hell to get the project to build when we changed version numbers. But, I have a solution. The [...]
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