Showing 16 posts tagged with "grails"
A Comment on Phil's "laravel-is-awesome"
I guess you can't compare a platform like Grails with PHP. But if your writing a "large scale application" or what some might call, Enterprise, then is it necessary to have support for simple web hosts. I don't see how b...
PHPUnit CodeIgniter FAIL
Well today was a horrible waste of time. All thanks to our good friends at CIUnit / CodeIgniter. Seems that PHPUnit and CodeIgniter to not integrate out of the box. And CIUnit, at the time of this writing, trying out t...
Contact Campaigns dot Com
Its Saturday, And I decided to put my recently learned Grails Fu to the test. The concept: Email Marketing System. I've been using SugarCRM to cheat around services like MailChimp and SurveyMonkey. But I think an...
backbone.js + Laravel reminds me of Grails!
Wow. check out this awesome nettuts video that shows you how to use backbone and laravel to create CRUD operations on 'data objects' in the front end. Laravel really reminds me of Grails. It has methods that seem very m...
nodejs and express, my first app
So I was working on my ubuntu servers this weekend. Trying to get some extra work in. Work that shouldn't feel like work. I was thinking about how natural/intuitive asynchronous event driven applications design might be...
TIL: Grails Exapndo Object
TIL: On our development team, someone used POGO's to define a payload to a REST API. Were coming from a JavaScript perspective, having every object be dynamic, there is no need to define any structure before hand. So...
Filtering Grails Objects that have hasMany relationships
In Grails (using GORM), querying objects based on the properties of nested associations (a hasMany relationship) requires nested closures inside the criteria query. Here's a quick explanation of how to filter Grails obj...
Grails Service to do file system, sftp, and ftp file operations
So I've been preparing this module to do sftp / ftp / and file system manipulations in groovy. I've got it running as a service in grails, with a page setup for testing. Its really important that if your testing th...
Falling in love with Groovy
This is great! Finally the JVM has been leveraged for over 200 other languages. Scala is one of the more popular ones. Lots of startups talking about it. But I gotta say, now that I know Grails, and even got paid to l...
Grails is great, But Boring
Why in the heck would anyone choose the java platform to build on, idfk. The compilation process, and project build times, take all the fun out of being a web developer. Grails goes a long way to breach that gap, from...
Grails DataSources plugin
Hi Guys, I have been trying to integrate multiple datasources with grails. I get a strange error: nested exception is org.hibernate.cache.NoCachingEnabledException: Second-level cache is not enabled for usage [hibe...
Grails is Hard
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 ma...
Node.js + Require.js for CSS optimization
When I worked on disneymoviesonline.go.com we had a very sophisticated build script that would take care of the compression and optimization of CSS and JavaScript. Primarily, we relied on google closure compiler for the...
Backbone.js with Grails
So I am using Grails once again. Looks like another decision maker has bought into the hype that re-learning how to do what software engineers like myself have been doing for 10+, in what is supposedly advertised as a "q...
Grails and Groovy
We had been doing a lot work with SVG, HTML5, Node.js and a lot of other cool technologies which are going to be the core of all future web browsers. Its been proving extremely difficult, since they are still all being...
Grails and Groovy
We had been doing a lot work with SVG, HTML5, Node.js and a lot of other cool technologies which are going to be the core of all future web browsers.Its been proving extremely difficult, since they are still all being b...