The moment you start doing real work with Ajax you will find that multiple page elements have to be updated from a single action.
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A note on asset tree levels.
Care Factor is VERY under valued by most companies. The value of an employee to a business ranks something like this:
1. Care Factor
2. Emotional Maturity
3. Intellectual IQ
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A real user review (instead of marketing hype). As a programmer I am a high performance desktop user and have found that having a gaming grade mouse and good keyboard really boosts my productivity and happiness.
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A real user review (instead of marketing hype). As a programmer I am a high performance desktop user and have found that having a gaming grade mouse and good keyboard really boosts my productivity and happiness.
Despite the lack of official support for GNU/Linux there is good news for G700 purchasers.
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Why I want use GORM standalone in Griffon.
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While playing with Groovy and Db4o I ran across a few errors that nearly put me right off Db4o. But after half a day tinkering I have found that it’s not really a problem with Db4o. If you are getting any of the following errors when trying to use Db4o and Groovy then perhaps this post can help.
Errors:
java.lang.ClassCastException cannot be cast to com.db4o.reflect.generic.GenericObject // or person.getClass() is this. // When trying to access a method or property of a retrieved object. groovy.lang.MissingMethodException groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException (G) Person // GenericObject, e.g: println person
I’m not sure if I just like HQL (Hibernate Query Language) because it is so close to SQL or because I don’t get the otherwise fabulous Grails HibernateCriteriaBuilder well enough to be sure of some of the more tricky queries. I do enjoy using the criteria builder but seem to hit limitations every so often, perhaps it is just that the type of queries that I happen to be writing lend themselves well to HQL.
