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Grails - I'm starting to get a BAD feeling

Posted November 11, 2010

I've been working on my first real Grails project for a few days now, and I have to admit - I'm starting to feel a little uncertain about the whole thing.

Tasks which seem like they should be fairly simple end up being a huge load of effort to get functioning.

Let me give you 2 examples of where the…

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Ubuntu 10.04 - Take Two

Posted May 30, 2010

After working in Ubuntu 10.04 for a bit, I have one major gripe - OpenJDK/IcedTea. I have no idea whose decision it was to drop the official Sun JDK from the repositories (or if Oracle had a part to play in this), but OpenJDK is a pile of steamy dog-droppings.

Since upgrading (and being forced to sw…

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Ubuntu 10.04 First Impressions

Posted May 14, 2010

I just completed my upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 and here's my first impressions.

Honestly - right now I don't care for the new colours. The dark-grey menus are actually surprisingly hard to read. And no, I'm not blind.

The move of the close, min, max buttons from the right to the left is uncomfortable a…

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Grails Next Impressions - Some Problems

Posted December 3, 2009

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…

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