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2007
Grails Challenge: 7 hour update
An article by Glen
Ok. Creeping up on 6.7 hours working on my Grails-based Groovy Blog Aggregator and it’s time for an update on what’s done so far.
Ok. Quite a lot is in:
- Account creation, forgotten password
- Adding a single blog feed to your account (with ajax test/preview)
- RSS and Atom parsing of feeds using Rome
- Scheduled updating of all registered feeds (checking for new entries)
- “Recent Entries” page with basic description summary taglib
- Hit counting and redirection from “Recent Entries”
- Some of the early CSS layout template stuff
But you probably want pictures…
Where have I burnt most of the time? I know a bit has certainly gone to CSS and Photoshop (those damn gradient backdrops…). Also burnt a fair bit of it working out how Rome handles Atom and RSS irregularities (still some XML encoding bugs in there to iron out at my end).
Also came across some issues in the remoteFormLink tag when using Yahoo as the underlying Ajax library. Retreated to Prototype version and life was good (must remember to log an issue on that one).
So things are definitely on track for my 20 hour timeframe… but everyone says that early in a project 
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Hey bigfella, I’m following your progress with great interest. Evaluating Grails for use in our company here in London town.
Keep it up mate!
you’re cool! Do you mind sharing your source code? Or provide tutorials for those grails and web app developer newbies?
For sure. When I’m done with the 20 hour challenge all the source will be Apache 2.0 and free for whatever you want (preferrably patches and enhancements
picture is too large, scale it down a bit.