From the monthly archives:

September 2008

grails-jsunit-0.3

September 26, 2008

I’ve just released grails-jsunit-0.3 - a plugin which adds jsunit support to grails applications.
This release changes the download url for the jsunit binaries to http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jsunit/jsunit2.2alpha11.zip, and is upgraded to grails-1.0.3.
When you install the plugin, it will download the jsunit binaries from the url above to $GRAILS_HOME/downloads - if it fails, you can manually download it [...]

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Built with AppEngine and Groovy

September 17, 2008

I’ve just released http://blogs.morehappydogs.com/ - this is a AppEngine/Groovy blend - the application aggregates blog posts about dogs. If you are interested in dogs, check it out.
The web tier is build with AppEngine in Python. AppEngine supplies the database via Datastore. Since you can’t run jobs within appengine, I wrote services in Groovy which process [...]

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grails-selenium-0.5

September 16, 2008

I’ve just released a new version (0.5) of the selenium plugin, which fixes compatibility problems with Grails 1.0.3. Hopefully all is well now and I’d like to apologise to all the users out there who ran into problems. If you encounter any more issues, you can email me at paul@javathinking.com.
On another note, it would be [...]

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Displaying dates and times with Oracle

September 4, 2008

I use SQLDeveloper when interacting with Oracle. When viewing tables with date columns it can be frustrating that the default display does not show time (just day, month and year).
To change this behaviour, you can set the date format for your current session:

alter session set NLS_DATE_FORMAT='DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'

Now, when you view tables or resultsets, you’ll have [...]

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