Monthly Archives: November 2008

Grails-UI Documentation Will Come

I’ve received a lot of requests on the mailing lists and the GrailsUI JIRA for more documentation than is provided in the plugin reference page. Ideally, I would like to see not only gdocs on the web, but a live continuous build that includes the sample application, with links to the GSP source of [...]


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Me Meme

Via Eric Burke

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.


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Grails package naming

Recently, my friend and colleague asked some questions about package naming conventions in Grails. I think they were excellent questions, and I wouldn’t be surprised if others were wondering about the same things. You could get into arguments with some guys over stuff like this, but here is my opinion…

com.businessname.appname
Is there an inherent [...]


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Vote for GrailsUI 1.1 issues!

We have gotten a lot of feedback on GrailsUI since its release only a few weeks ago, and there is a long list of issues awaiting work. Some of the new capabilities of GrailsUI will be:

Datepicker date format
Datatable client side pagination and sorting
Datatable inline cell editors
AutoComplete rendered as combo box
New tags for charts
New dataSource [...]


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Introducing the ‘Lambda Lounge’

My colleague Alex Miller has created a new group in the St. Louis area focusing on interest in functional and dynamic programming languages. He has dubbed it the Lambda Lounge (referring to λ-calculus), and the first meeting will be December 4 at 6PM.
I am very excited to be among the presenters at the first [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: