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.
Jan 172011
Dec 092010
My original goal here was to create a pancake batter but the mixture turned out better cooked in our waffle maker.
Nov 132010
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.
Nov 132010
Despite the lack of official support for GNU/Linux there is good news for G700 purchasers.
Oct 252010
Why I want use GORM standalone in Griffon.
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Oct 222010
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 |
Oct 212010
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.
Sep 022010
Plastic manufactured items should have to apply for an Enduring Item Permit.
Aug 252010
My VPS host rolls their own Xen custom kernel but I wanted to run the Debian distribution supplied kernel simply so that it gets updated by the Debian security updates.
Aug 222010
Out the box Grails provides two ways to display messages to the user.
Aug 132010
One of the things that Groovy is really great at is creating Domain Specific Languages (DSL) or Builders.
Jun 232010
Although I have been running servers from various connection for several years now there is something very exciting and special about my first commercial VPS.
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May 202010
JaspeReports is heralded as a great and powerful reporting engine, add to that iReport and a Grails Plugin and we’re all set to go. But beware the learning curve!
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Apr 222010
Concrete5 calls its self a CMS, but it looks more like a powerful website builder to me! It’s not in Debian Lenny but it is php and I’m dying to try it when I have a need to build or rebuild a web site. Also the team sound like folks after my own heart, commercial open source software done right, so check it out if you have a chance! I certainly will report back here when I do.
Mar 262010
As of Grails-1.2.2 we have a better way to specify JVM options just for Grails!
So now that headless option won’t prevent groovyConsole from starting, yay!
Note: this is for firing Grails up from the command line, not deployment.
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Feb 222010
A fantastic quote! Jam packed with a vivid description of the insanity of our world.
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Feb 162010
Thanks to the awesome groovy-ness of groovy this is crazy easy!
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Feb 072010
When using an anchor tag to trigger some javascript why not show it to the user?
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Jan 112010
Here are some ‘real life’ database connection examples for the MySQL (~5.0) and MSSQL (Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver which can be used on 2003).
Dec 172009
Logging is a better way to debug and provide messages than slapping println statements around. Here is an example of a grails config for log4j. This will also place the log file in with the Tomcat logs when you deploy.