So how much of a Community-driven Website could you build in 20 hours, once you’ve got a good feel for the framework? That’s my February Grails challenge… I reckon I can find about 5 hours of “project” time a week (think wife/kids/dog/dayjob/uni/health – so 5 hours might be optimistic). I’m really keen to see what I could build in that timeframe over the course of February that would be useful to the Groovy and Grails [...]

That’s right. Grails apps now play nice on Glassfish v1. Graham has been very patient about my regular nagging over GRAILS-269 , and true to his word, the new Grails 0.4 will indeed be Glassfish friendly. This is sensational news for me, since I have been busting to run a few of my apps publicly for a while and had to resort to all sorts of dodgy workarounds getting Grails running on Jetty while the [...]

I’ve been a long term fan of Anthill. It was always so much easier to configure than Cruise Control and, even though the feature set was slimmer, it did everything I needed in an automated build/continuous integration tool. Lately, however, I’ve been taking Hudson for a spin as an Anthill replacement, and it has totally blown me away. The cool Ajaxy console window that keeps in sync with your build’s stdout as it happens, the [...]

After a year of stuffing around, I’ve finally released PasswordSafeSWT 0.6 – my little Java port of the popular PasswordSafe password manager. New in this release is long-awaited support for the v3 PWS database format, along with Mac OSX Universal binary support, and an update to SWT 3.2 which should fix some Linux display manager issues some people were having. This release took *sooo* much longer than I thought it would, mostly because I tried [...]

There’s been a some talk on the Grails list from different folk that are having a go at implementing a fulltext Search for their Grails application. Maurice has done a sensational job with integrating Compass, and looks like a fantastic platform for a future integrated Grails search capability. Recently I’ve been using raw Lucene, and I have my hit hitlighting happening (including … ellipses for joining multiple hits in a single document), along with some [...]