Category: Grails
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Go to see Grails, learn about Hibernate
Today I finally got to see the two Grails presentations by Jason Rudolph at No Fluff, Just Stuff. It’s not really an exaggeration to say I decided to attend the conference largely because I knew he’d be there. I like the NFJS conferences, but since I’m a one-person company, the “budget” for the conference comes…
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Moving from Groovy to Grails
When I first heard about Ruby on Rails late in 2005, I got very excited about it and was eager to learn more. Over the Xmas/New-Years break I purchased both the so-called “pick-axe” book (Programming Ruby, by Dave Thomas) and the Agile Web Developer’s Guide to Rails (by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson). I…
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Paired Programming works, sometimes
A site I was browsing (I think it was Slashdot) linked me to a blog with a massive post entitled “Good Agile, Bad Agile”. The author (Steve Yegge) works for Google — and how cool is that — and he’s writing about some of the good experiences he’s had with Agile programming techniques, which he…