I was inspired to write this comparison between the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Flex 2 by reading Comparing the Google Web Toolkit to Echo2. I felt that the comparison between GWT and Echo 2 was like the proverbial distinction between apples and oranges. I thought that a better comparison can be drawn [...]
In Getting Started with Grails I went over some installation quirks in Grails to generating a scaffolding for a blog post domain model. In this entry, we will create a comments domain model class and link both domain classes so that post can have many comments. To start off, lets add some fields [...]
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So if you want to get started with Grails after reading Holy Guacamole Web Development with Grails then you are in the right place. In the next few paragraphs I will go over how to go from installing Grails to generating the scaffolding for a domain model. Just to provide a context for [...]
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I was original going to name this post Agile Web Development with Grails but I didn’t want Dave Thomas to send me a cease and desist notification like DHH sent the Grails developers back when it was known as Groovy on Rails. For those that didn’t notice, I was trying to be funny in [...]
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Some people think that by not using threads that would make their code thread safe. One way to write thread safe code is to pass state by parameters as much as possible, limit the use of singletons (also a source of memory leaks), syncronize accordingly, and use ThreadLocal objects where appropriate.
The ThreadLocal class is [...]
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Here is a list of all the Ruby on Rails presentations that I have bookmarked.
VIDEO
Creating a weblog in 15 minutes – For me, this is the video that started it all.
Snakes and Rubbies: Complete – “On December 3, 2005, Ruby and Python developers from Chicago and vicinity gathered at DePaul University to hear two of [...]
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