All blog posts from December 2009
Grails and Ruby on Rails OO - Kind of Odd
After having worked in Ruby on Rails and Grails for a bit now, something occurred to me that's a little odd about their designs. In this particular observation, both the frameworks end up with the same net effect (but achieve it in different ways). The issue in question is how to declare different m…
Online Auctions The *RIGHT* Way
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I was one of the early adopters of eBay. I used it extensively when it was still young, and prices were competitive. I recall winning a large sapphire for $70, a price which Canadian customs found so hard to a…
Grails More Impressions - Scripts
For my next reflection on impressions with Grails, I'm going to look at scripts (in the context of little utility scripts to simplify common complex tasks).
For this entry, I will compare Grails' "gant" scripts with Ruby "rake" scripts.
First up, namespacing is very different between the two. Gant u…
Proposed Project - Java on Rails
I've become a little disillustion with all the various agile frameworks out there.
At first, I had high hopes for Ruby on Rails, but after working on it for a year and a half, I decided that Ruby is a terrible language, and Rails is an aweful framework built on top of a terrible language.
Naturally,…
Grails Next Impressions - Some Problems
After working with Grails a bit more after my original post, I've come across some rather annoying issues.
First up is an issue with the domain classes. I've noticed that if you have constraints defined which are invalid or whose value is incorrect, no error is reported. Oddly enough, what does occu…
Visit my Friends and Family
If you've enjoyed my site, please take a moment to visit my friends and family, many of whom have some interesting insights, and entertaining thoughts and ideas.
- Crause Family - the family website
- Peter Crause - my father
- Justin Crause - my brother
- Cencina Photomagic - great photographer
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