From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Why are you coding?

September 29, 2007

There is a good article here about the need to explain why you are coding. I’ve often found that with most projects or tasks people are reluctant to give you the high level picture - it wastes too much time and, “you don’t need to know”.
It reminded me of several situations where someone comes to [...]

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grails-p6spy-0.2

September 19, 2007

This information is out of date - please see http://grails.org/plugin/p6spy for the current documentation.
Grails 0.6 was recently released, and this new version included changes to the way the DataSource is defined. So, to make my grails-p6spy-plugin compatible with 0.6, here is a new release:
grails-p6spy-0.2.zip
P6Spy lets you monitor the JDBC queries by proxying your database driver. [...]

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Changing code in Grails services

September 5, 2007

I’ve been using Grails for the last couple of months, and I’m loving it. While looking up some reference information, I stumbled across this gem.
Its always been frustrating when updating services that the server needed to be restarted. Well, this problem has been caused because I’ve been specifying the type of my services instead of [...]

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