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2007
The Grails 20 hour Challenge…
An article by Glen
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 community (you’ll also be able to download the src to as a good little sample app for learning when I’m done).
I’m going to use Slimtimer to keep my hours honest and get some good non-fudged metrics on my own productivity. I’m also going to be reusing code from my other Grails apps (it’s not cheating – you would too 
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The plan is to have a crack at building a blog aggregator – a simple automated aggregator of Groovy and Grails related blogs in the same style as javablogs.com.
Not sure there are quite Groovy and Grails bloggers yet for a “hot entries” page, but we’ll work that all out as we go. I’m planning to post up grabs of my progress here once a week, so people can see just how much you can build in your spare time. Here’s how far I’ve got so far
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Good luck with this Glen! I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes
Great idea. I’m looking forward to read your experiences!
Cheers,
Marcel
We’ll be watching your progress. Grails 0.4 has just released, are you going to use this release?
For sure. I’ve been using 0.4 SVN for the last couple of weeks pretty happily for the Glassfish fixes.
Awesome! I don’t know how you find the five hours? wife/kids/dog/commute eats most of my time.
LoL. Yeah. About a year ago I was challenged by a fitness dude to cut my sleep time to 7 hours to (a) improve my wellbeing, and (b) get more stuff done. I can totally vouch for it.