It really is difficult to get used to Grails.
Is “copy paste” really that EVIL that we must obliterate it from the programmers tool kit?
I could have copy pasted my way to a CRUD ten times faster, then trying to manage it with Grails.
It took my co-workers a lot of time to figure out “cascading” and critical ORM concepts.
I find myself regenerating views, and copy pasting my changes back in, every time I want to change the domain class.
Just doesn’t feel like a mature Web Framework.
I did a couple of days of freelancing over at Possible Word Wide. A consultancy group down in Culver City. Basically they were using this awesome software called Buddy Media to do all the heavy lifting for the mitsubishi i facebook page. Well I got a call from Jon, a recruiter at silversearch, and he told me that they needed an emergency person to fill the vacuum left by an absentee designer. So I had a chance to check out BuddyMedia and tweek the quizes, polls, and all the other features and design aspects of their facebook page.
How exciting, I got a 1pm meeting today with Sodahead. I blew my chance to hook up with VC funded start up three years ago. I just didn’t know enough about MVC, and ORM, and Agile Development. The same problem occurred at Disney and Varient.
Varient didn’t like me because I had never seen ->assign(‘name’,$value) statements before. And I totally flunked one of their questions, “Create a left hand menu with 3 random links selected from a database”. I was so amped the night before, and crashing so hard that day, I went into my own world of .. use rnd() and use a loop to get 3 unique id numbers. when the answer was “select * from links order by rand limit 3”.
Sodahead didn’t like me because I didn’t know about Agile Development, or Scrum, and I had no clue what ORM, or object relational mapping is. What was I supposed to say? I mean, we didn’t have main stream frameworks at Bill McCaffrey’s setup, and their servers were getting 2 billion page view’s a month. Bill taught me that the best most efficient way to extend PHP is with C. He also taught me, screw oracle, write your own middleware, in C.
I hope to have changed this precedent, and today I will find out, as I walk into a Django backend and YUI frontend shop, Sodahead.com
And then do a phone screening with Disney.
Manifesto for Agile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
